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Latitude: 50.8099 / 50°48'35"N
Longitude: -2.7359 / 2°44'9"W
OS Eastings: 348244
OS Northings: 101409
OS Grid: ST482014
Mapcode National: GBR MJ.YBPD
Mapcode Global: FRA 564Y.RXR
Plus Code: 9C2VR757+XJ
Entry Name: The Manor House and Stable Block
Listing Date: 12 June 1953
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1220906
English Heritage Legacy ID: 394592
ID on this website: 101220906
Location: Beaminster, Dorset, DT8
County: Dorset
Civil Parish: Beaminster
Built-Up Area: Beaminster
Traditional County: Dorset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset
Church of England Parish: Beaminster St Mary of the Annunciation
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
Tagged with: Architectural structure
BEAMINSTER NORTH STREET
ST 4701/4801
12-6-53 (NORTH SIDE)
7/109 The Manor House and stable block
GV II*
Manor House. Late C18 and 1822 remodelling by Underwood. Stone walls,
stuccoed. Rusticated quoins with a moulded cornice and plain parapet.
Slate roof, hipped. Rendered stacks, 2 behind front wall parapet.
2 storeys, 5 bays, sash-windows with thin glazing-bars. Straight bay-
window at right hand ground, tripartite sash without glazing-bars. Centre
bay projects slightly and is defined by rusticated quoins. Stone porch,
early C19, with coupled Doric columns, triglyph frieze and heavy ogee cornice.
Front door at centre, wooden with glass panels over, C20. Rear elevation
is of plain stone ashlar. Interior: Big Drawing Room: ceiling-painting
by Andrea Casali (c.1720-c.1780) of the feast of the Gods, moved from Fonthill.
Plasterwork surround with rinceaux decoration. Palmette plaster cornice,
and garlanded frieze below. Fireplace, also front Fonthill, in white and
Siena marble, with 3 scenes from Siege of Troy in the mantel shelf.
Voluted side-pilasters with warriors sitting on top of the volutes. Egg-
and-dart moulding to base of frieze, and dentil-cornice above. Plasterwork
overmantel to fireplace, c. early C19 with oval centre with possibly Homer
at centre. Rinceau decoration to the surrounding area.
Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset, I, p 23 (6). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and
Engravers, (ed. 1930), vol I, p264.
Listing NGR: ST4824101413
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