Description

GUSSAGE ALL SAINTS
ST 91 SE VILLAGE STREET
(South-west side)

5/41 Gussage House
18.3.55

II

Rectory, now private house, late C17 with C18 and C19 alterations. For
Col. Joshua Churchill. Brick with some mathematical tiles. Hipped, tiled
roof with brick stack left of centre. Stucco quoins, moulded wooden cornice
and first floor plat band. Symmetrical. 2 storeys and attics, 4 bay.
12-pane sashes under flat, gauged, brick arches. Central bay probably
contained a doorway originally. French doors to south wall. 3 hipped dormers
with wrought-iron casements with leaded-lights. Panelled doorway with moulded
architrave and transom light in re-entrant angle.

Internal features (RCHM): original oak-staircase with square newel posts,
restored ball finials, turned pendants, moulded close strings, turned
balusters and moulded handrails; round-headed landing archways with panelled
pilasters, moulded archivolts and pulvinated entablatures. (RCHM, Dorset,
vol V, p.20, no.3.)

Listing NGR: ST9992710726

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26609188

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