Listed Building record MDO9573 - The Roundhouse, Wimborne St Giles

A garden building or gazebo built around 1700. It is said to have been built for the 3rd earl of Shaftesbury. The two-storey building is square in plan, and has a cellar. Its walls are brick covered in render, and it has a domed roof.

(SU 04601106) Round House (NAT). <2>

(25) GAZEBO (04601106), of two storeys, is square on plan and has rendered brick walls and a domical roof covered with tiles and lead (Plate 32). It was built c. 1700, reputedly as a place of contemplation for the 3rd earl of Shaftesbury. The E. side has a plain square-headed doorway at ground level and a large sashed window in the upper storey. The N. and W. sides have similar windows; the W. side also has an oval ground-floor window and a plain doorway giving access to a small cellar. The S. side, without openings, bears a stone cartouche of the arms of the 2nd earl (Ashley-Cooper impaling Manners). <1, 3>

<1> DOE (HHR), 1951, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Wimborne and Cranborne RD, 24 (Scheduling record). SDO17339.

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

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 99-100 (Monograph). SDO129.

‘(25) GAZEBO (04601106), of two storeys, is square on plan and has rendered brick walls and a domical roof covered with tiles and lead (Plate 32). It was built c. 1700, reputedly as a place of contemplation for the 3rd earl of Shaftesbury. The E. side has a plain square-headed doorway at ground level and a large sashed window in the upper storey. The N. and W. sides have similar windows; the W. side also has an oval ground-floor window and a plain doorway giving access to a small cellar. The S. side, without openings, bears a stone cartouche of the arms of the 2nd earl (Ashley-Cooper impaling Manners).’

<4> Historic England, Historic England Archive, Object Number: BF112187. (Index). SDO14738.

Object Title: St Giles House, Wimborne St Giles.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213787 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 12 2022 11:49AM