Cattistock House

SY 5999 10/42 26.1.56

CATTISTOCK WEST END, (west side) Cattistock House

GV II

Detached House. Dated 1717, with C20 remodelling and conversion at rear. Knapped flint and banded stone plinth. Ashlar chalk block walls, with ashlar Ham stone quoins. Ham stone string over ground floor windows carried up over front door as a semi-circle. Moulded brick cornice. Hipped slate roof. Brick stacks on left and right end walls. 2 storeys. 3 windows, symmetrical facade, 2-light ovolo-moulded stone mullions and framing. C20 metal casements with lozenge-leaded lights. Front door at centre, plank with strap-hinges, wooden lintel with C20 inscription: "Pana Domus Magna Quies," (sic). Rear walls have two re-used 3-light stone mullions with hollow chamfers, C20 metal casements. Rear range at right angles, 1930's conversion of stable-block rubble-stone walls and brick quoins, hipped slate roof. Stone and brick stack on end wall. Rear entrance to house in rear range has a depressed-arch bead to porch, C20. Interior: double-depth house with central transverse corridor. Fireplace in south front room, set across the corner, has chalk block jambs and a wooden lintel over. C17 doorway in north end wall, re-set, has ovolo-moulded jambs and depressed-arch head with foliate spandrels, all stone.

(RCHM Dorset I, p73(13))

Listing NGR: SY5911399755