Listed Building record MDO9484 - Gussage House, Gussage All Saints

Gussage House was formerly the rectory of All Saints Church. It was built at the end of the seventeenth century, with some eighteenth-century and later alterations and additions. The house has brick walls and tiled roofs and consists of two storeys with cellars and attics.

Gussage House, formerly the rectory, is two-storeyed with cellars and attics, and has brick walls and tiled roofs. It dates from the end of the 17th century, with 18th century and later additions and alterations. <1, 3>

<1> DOE (HHR), 1951, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Wimborne and Cranborne RD, 5 (Scheduling record). SDO17339.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(ST 99931073) Gussage House (NAT)

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 19-20, No 3 Plan (Monograph). SDO129.

‘(3) Gussage House (99931073), formerly the rectory, is two-storeyed with cellars and attics and has brick walls and tiled roofs. It was built by Colonel Joshua Churchill at the end of the 17th century (Hutchins III, 491). Alterations and additions are of the 18th century and later.

The four-bay W. front (Plate 29) has a brick plat-band, stucco quoins, a moulded wooden cornice and symmetrically arranged sashed windows. The brickwork between the two middle windows is evidently later than the rest of the front, suggesting that originally this was the principal façade, with a central doorway. The side windows, now somewhat narrower than formerly, may originally have had stone surrounds. The N. front, containing the present main doorway, has details similar to the W. front, but is asymmetrical; the brickwork of the N. wall of the kitchen wing appears to be of the 18th century. The E. front is rendered. The two-bay S. front, with quoins as on the W., is hung with mathematical tiles.

Inside, the fittings are largely of the 19th century, but the oak stairs are original, with square newel-posts with restored ball finials and turned pendants, moulded close strings, turned balusters and moulded handrails, all of stout proportions. The first-floor landing retains round-headed archways with panelled pilasters, moulded archivolts and pulvinated entablatures, presumably original.’

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 210126 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Feb 13 2025 4:38PM