Trigon House Including Attached Garden Wall And Loggias On North-West

WAREHAM SAINT MARTIN TRIGON SY 88 NE 5/100 Trigon House, including attached garden wall and loggias on north- west. - II Country house. Original section c.l911, Architect Philip Sturdy. Enlarged 1928 with stone re-used from the demolished C18 South Bridge, Wareham. In Arts and Crafts style. Original section has brick walls, with enriched brick cornices at eaves and verges. Patent tile roof. Brick stacks with grouped octagonal shafts and moulded caps. 2 storeys. Main front has a central range with stone mullioned windows on each floor, and gable projections each end. Moulded stone string course at frist floor level. Gables have canted mullioned bay windows on each floor, with herring-bone tiling between the windows, and hipped tiled roofs with ornamental cornices formed from half round tiles. At left end a canted gabled projection of similar design. Attached to this a canted stone- built extension of 1929, consisting of a Dining Room block, with stone slate roof and moulded parapet, and 2 octagonal single-storey structures, - a porch and a store room, linked by an open carriage porch with 4-centred arch. This section dated 1928. Aboce the entrance door a re-used date stone of 1755 and at the rear of the store a re-set stone inscribed "This bridge rebuilt 1778". Octagonal battlemented turret at end of Dining Room block. At rear of Dining Room a large canted bay window with mullions and transomes, containing heraldic glass. Gabled projection above this. Internally, the Dining Room, of Greek, Cross plan, has 4 large stone arches of 2 orders carried on stone piers. Timber gallery with carved shields. Attached to house on north-west a stone garden wall with bowed projections and recessed loggias, all of re-used stone from the bridge. An interesting example of Arts and Crafts design.

Listing NGR: SY8864488958