Listed Building record MDO9983 - 56 High West Street, Dorchester

One of a pair of three-storey houses built in 1849 on the site of the town house of the Trenchards of Wolfeton, and situated on the north side of High West Street. The front of the building is covered in stucco, and architectural details include moulded window architraves, cast-iron balconies and fanlights.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1, 125 (Monograph). SDO148.

‘High East Street and High West Street form the main E.-W. axis of the town. Improvements to these streets were carried out in the 18th century, especially in 1790 when houses near St. Peter's church, which projected into the street, were pulled down. With Cornhill and South Street they form the main thoroughfares and are therefore described here before the minor streets, which follow in alphabetical order.
Monuments (26) to (107) are mostly substantial buildings and unless otherwise described are of two storeys with attics or three storeys, with brick walls and tiled or slated roofs. The elevations of Monuments (26) to (38), (49) to (77) and (83) to (91) are shown in drawings opp. and opp. p. 121, to which reference should also be made for their positions. (The appearance of the destroyed houses immediately E. of Monument (64) is derived from a late 19th-century photograph.)
… High West Street … (77) HOUSES, a pair, Nos. 56, 57, of 1849, are rendered in stucco with rusticated ground floor, rusticated quoins and moulded cornice with modillions. The upper windows have moulded architraves, those on the first floor with cornices above and opening to iron balconies. (Deed in D.C.R.O.)’

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Aug 22 2024 7:46PM