Description

SEABOROUGH SEABOROUGH VILLAGE ST 40 NW 20.7.82 1/238 Seaborough Court - II

Country House. 1877, by T H Wyatt. Dressed stone walls, with ashlar dressings. Clay tile roofs, with 2 gables to the front. Clustered stone stacks on gable-ends and rear of tower. U-Plan, with entrance front on east, garden front on south, service wing on north. 2 storeys and attics. 4 bays (east). Bay one: 3-light canted oriel to first floor. Ovolo-stone mullions and stone roof over. Buttress-support to the corbelled-out oriel. 2-light stone mullion window in gable. Strapwork roundel above. Each gable has one crow-step set-off and a ball-finial at apex. Bay 2: Tower- porch entrance: 4-centred arch entrance, moulded jambs, carved spandrels. Diagonally-set standards frame carved armorial (Gough) and terminate each in a statue. Single-light first floor window, with cusped panelling in head. Two loop-lights above. Balustraded cornice. Tower top stage: 2 4-centred windows with panel tracery square heads; divided by pilasters. Massive cornice over Open strapwork parapet with urn-finials. Bay 3: 4-light stone mullion window with 2 cross-transoms. First floor with 2-light stone mullion window, transomed. Dormer window, 2-light mullion sashed, with a steep gable over. Bay 4: with square bay window to ground and first, with 2 2-light mullions, cross-transomed. Strapwork parapet to the bay. Similar, though not identical, window in the gable, to bay one. Same roundel, gable-coping and finial, as bay one. South elevation, main features: canted bay at left, of 3 storeys. Right hand bay, has a gable with stacks coming out of left hand side. Left hand ground: Conservatory, 3 bays with stone pilaster divisions and foliage capitals. Extreme left (west): Loggia, dated WEM 1907, 3 bays of Tuscan Order arches. Open fronted. Interior: Hall at centre, reception rooms to south, dining room and service wing to north. Hall staircase with barley-sugar, and turned-cube-turned balusters in pine. Large Perpendicular windows with stained glass armonials, including arms of Gough. Source: Mrs de Vallet, owner. N Pevsner, Dorset, p361.

Listing NGR: ST4277205947

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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