Barton End, And Attached Walls At Rear

BEAMINSTER FLEET STREET, (EAST SIDE) ST 4701/4801 7/57 Barton End, and attached walls at rear GV II*

Single House. C17 and early C18. Brick walls with burnt headers. Stone plinth. Stone rusticated quoins. Moulded stone cornice, and parapet with ramped corners. Tile roof with stone gable-copings, steep pitch. (Front range). Rubble-stone walls, tile roof, stone gable-copings, (rear wing). Plan: C17 rear wing and porch, at right-angles to street. c.1730 front range with rear staircase projection. Front range: 2 storeys and attics. 5 windows, symmetrical facade. Sashes with glazing- bars. Stone window architraves with projecting dropped key to scale. Stone cills, 2-light dormers with filed cheeks and hipped tile roofs. Front door: stone surround, plain frieze and part-open stone pediment, carried on stone volute-brackets. Door, of wood with flush panels and 2 top lights. Rear range: 2 storeys, 4-light stone mullions (caretto) with labels over. Renewed and original fixed leaded lights. Iron casements. 2-storey porch with depressed straight-chamfered doorway. Raised label over. C18 stair-wing at rear has round-headed window with keystone. Plain blind oculus, oval-shaped. Interior: Rear wing: extensive flagstone-floors. Large open fireplace with re-set wooden lintel. Studded plank door beside with strap-hinges. Stone fireplace with Tudor-arch head on first floor, roll and concave-moulded jambs. C18 staircase: oak handrail with,inverted bulbous balusters. Window- shutters in front of house have fielded panelling. C20 extension at right of house, along street. Stone walls with stone coping, running for 25 metres at rear of C17 wing, c.15 feet high. Attached stone-rubble garden walls at rear, c.8 foot high. Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 26 (43).

Listing NGR: ST4812001572