Charminster House

Charminster House is a detached house set in its own grounds, built in the early 18th century and extensively remodeled in the mid-19th century. The house features brick walls that are rendered, with a rendered parapet and a string course. It has a slate roof with stone gable copings and brick stacks that include blind arcading, vitrified headers, and moulded dogtooth cornices. One of the east stacks has a specially modeled brick dated 1706.

The house is 2½ storeys tall, with five windows on the main facade and three on the easterly block. The main house has a projecting central bay, and the ground floor features 2-light French windows with marginal and horizontal glazing bars. On the first floor, there is a segmental bay window with six main lights, also with marginal and horizontal glazing bars, while the remaining windows are 2-light casements with marginal glazing bars and segmental heads, along with 19th-century window shutters. The attic has three small sash windows with glazing bars.

The front door is centrally located and has a moulded architrave, with the door itself featuring two recessed panels and two top lights set in a round-arched recess. A verandah supported by cast-iron pillars and topped with a glazed pentice roof dates from the 19th century. The easterly block is constructed of knapped flint with stone banding and has a half-hipped slate roof. Its windows have brick dressings and segmental arches with burnt headers, featuring 3-light casements with glazing bars and wooden cills. The rear of this block, facing the street, has 18th-century sashes with glazing bars in flush wooden frames.

The main part of the house has a rendered outshut under a pentice slate roof, with three 20th-century casements with labels. The entrance on the right side has a panelled door beneath a segmental arch. Inside, the responds of the archway between the entrance hall and the stair hall are cased with early 19th-century wooden panels carved in low relief, depicting figures of saints in flat niches with shell heads and side standards. The circular staircase, dating from the late 18th century, features turned balusters, newels, and a moulded handrail. The drawing room on the first floor boasts a late 18th-century moulded plaster ceiling.