Listed Building record MDO9779 - Moule House, 3 Trinity Street, Dorchester

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1, 128-9 (Monograph). SDO148.

'Formerly called 'South Back Street', this street originally stopped at the N. end at the junction with Prince's Street (q.v.), with no way through to High West Street. As a back street it must have served the stables and coach-houses of South Street, but No. 3 is a well-preserved house of some distinction. The W. side of the street has a dozen small houses of c. 1830–50.

(133) House, No. 3 (Plate 94; plan, p. 120), of two storeys with attics and basement, is of brick in Flemish bond with slated roofs. It was built probably in the first quarter of the 18th century, and the upper part of the front was rebuilt towards the end of that century. It has been restored subsequently and there are modern additions on the N.

The street front is symmetrical, of five bays, with a curtailed brick string at first-floor level, a cornice of c. 1780 with fluting in the frieze grouped to resemble triglyphs and a parapet wall. The central doorway has a stone architrave, pulvinated frieze and console brackets supporting a curved pediment; the windows have flat gauged brick heads, the upper rebuilt. The N. and S. ends are gabled, and the E. front has a brick string and parapet, ranges of five windows on each floor and old lead rainwater pipes with round heads.

Inside, the fittings are mostly of the 18th century; the ground-floor rooms are lined with ovolo-moulded and fielded panelling with moulded dado-rail and cornice; one fireplace surround has an enriched architrave and frieze and a panelled overmantel flanked by swags. The original staircase has turned and fluted or twisted balusters, three to a tread, and turned and fluted newels. The upper rooms are panelled as on the floor below but without fielding and the fireplaces are original and of stone.'

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1410310 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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