Listed Building record MDO9193 - Dewlish House, Dewlish

Country house in grounds of 1702, front and left end walls of ashlar stone, rear and right end walls of brick. Hipped slate roof with central lead flat. Brick end stacks and one right of centre, with recessed panels and oversailing caps.

Dewlish House, over 1/2m SSW of the church, is of two storeys with attics. According to Hutchins the house was built by
Thomas Skinner in 1702. The main front, to the NE, is of Purbeck stone: the SE end wall is of Ham Hill ashlar and the SW front is of brick, perhaps originally rendered; the NW end wall is modern, having been built since the removal of an 18th and 19th-century service wing which extended to the NW. The roofs are slate-covered. The house is a good example of domestic building of the period, with interesting archaism in the internal planning. It contains 18th century fittings of good quality. <2>

Name confirmed: as described. See ground photograph. <4>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 77079744) Dewlish House (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 85 (Monograph). SDO146.

<2.1> Shipp, W, and Hodson, J W (eds), 1863, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. 3rd edition. Volume 2, 607 (Monograph). SWX1269.

<3> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 177 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 21-OCT-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454600 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Sep 22 2023 11:08AM