Description

ST3514
1939-1/6/134
29/07/76

ILMINSTER
STATION ROAD
(South side)
Doniet House
(Formerly Listed as:
STATION ROAD
(South side)
No.33
(Westerholme). Doniet House)

GV
II

House. c1700, refronted c1800. Stucco with Ham Hill stone
dressings, plain tile roof and brick stacks to gable ends.
2-unit plan.
2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. 3 small C19 gabled
dormers to the roof, 6/6-pane sashes with raised stone
surrounds to the first floor. A Tuscan stone porch with
octagonal column, over a C19 eight-panel door, flanked by late
C19 single-storey stone canted bays with dentilled cornices
which have 1/1-pane sashes almost to floor level.
INTERIOR: The only evidence of the original building is in the
roof, which is 5-bay collar-truss with tenoned purlins, cut
away for the C18 dormers. There is a large hall with a c1800
open-well open-string staircase with fretted ends and a
wreathed handrail and curtail-step, a blocked margin-pane
overlight behind the c1860 porch. Upstairs are Regency-style
architraves with roundels-in-squares corners and reeded
cornices. The cornices to the ground-floor rooms, the ceiling
rose, and the polychromatic tiles to the hall floor are c1860.

Listing NGR: ST3544714787

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26580917

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)