The Manor House And Stable Block

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