Description

ST51NE YEOVIL CP DORCHESTER ROAD (off)

2/19 Aldon House, with associated stone stairway and walls immediately East and West of house

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Country House, of early C19. Ham stone ashlar, with Welsh slated roof partly hidden behind parapets, stone chimney stacks. U-shaped plan of 2-storeys, with smaller scale 3-storey additions to North West side. Entrance facade faces South West, and is of 5-bays, the centre bay recessed, with projecting wings to either side. The central semi- circular arched doorway now blocked flush, and a single storey porch has been built to bay 5 alongside the projecting wing; plain, panelled on either side of doorway, simple cornice and parapet block, 6-panel door in recess: to ground floor bays 1, 2 and 4 semi-circular headed sash windows of 9-panes with radials, having keystones above and recessed aprons below: above a band course and then 5 matching windows, the centre being one pane deeper and having a little stone balustrade across the bottom: a string course at impost level runs as arching over the window; above again a band course and open balustered parapet except for bay 3, which has a crude cornice and parapet block. The projecting wings have blind arched recesses to the sides, and at ground floor level front are Venetian windows of which the centre light is blocked in both cases: above these a single l2-pane sash window set in an architrave, with semi-blocked segmental arch over. The quoins are rusticated pilaster strips: there is an open pediment to the gable. There are various stacks - a group of 4 in the North-west corner have been arched together to form a Quasi turret. There is a stone wall from the North West corner with a sweep, which then returns South-Westwards to screen the stable area - this section of wall, about 2.5 metres high, as pilasters and a niche. The South-East garden front has 3-bays; the 2 left-hand have two 12-pane sash windows at both levels, set in architraves, the ground floor windows having bracketted hoods; there is an eaves cornice. The third bay is in the form of an end gable with a 2-storey angled bay with matching sashes - that to the centre ground floor having a pediment - the gable is also in the form of a pediment. The North East rear elevation is more complex, with 3-Dutch gables and transomed windows of C17 character. Adjacent to the main house towards Northern corner a fine flight of stone steps with open stone balusters with circular motif, with a length of return path, and trim running North Eastwards 50 metres of good stone retaining wall with central stone flight of stairs. The interior of the house not inspected.

Listing NGR: ST5547715029

External Links

• Wikidata Q26648227

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover