Description

BEAMINSTER HOGSHILL STREET, ST 4701/4801 (NORTH SIDE) 7/90 Nos 10-14 (Champions) 12-6-53 with front wall 30 metres to south. GV II*

Solicitor's Premises, formerly large town house. Late C17 core with C19 re-facing. Ashlar stone facade with rubble side-walls. Large moulded cornice and parapet. Tile roof with stone gable-copings, former parallel ridge, now with front and rear pitches and flat-top. 2 storeys. 5 windows, sashes with thin glazing-bars. Good recess-plane architraves. Front door at centre with stone Tuscan pilaster surround and a flat entalature. Door is wooden with 6 panels, C20. Door on side wall (left) with stone architrave and open pediment carried on rolute brackets with foliage motifs. Door with 2 flush and 4 glass lights. Windows at rear: 5, 2-light ovolo stone mullions. Continuous labels over all the ground and first floor windows. Iron casements with leaded lights, 18 to each casement. Front wall has large coursed stow with coping-stones. Square stone gate- pier at left hand, with coping-stone ramped up to it. Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 25 (34).

Listing NGR: ST4797601408

External Links

• Wikidata Q17543206

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