Magnolia House

HIGH STREET 1. 5190 (south side) Nos 131 and 133 (Magnolia House) (formerly listed as No 133) - and former stables and coach house adjoining south to 131 SZ 0278 NE 5/94 26.6.52 and gate piers and garden boundary wall to North East GV II

1. Now 2 houses. C18, possibly on the site of an earlier building. Purbeck Stone walls and roof. Brick stacks. A large house, at right angles to the High Street. Main elevation from east. U-shaped plan with projecting wings at each end of a recessed central section. Two storeys, plus attics and basement. The projecting wings have half-hipped gables, and each has a 3-storey canted bay window, with stone mullions and double-hung sashes, extending into the gable. In the centre section are now 2 entrance doors, at ground floor level, approached from a raised landing - above the basement. This has a canopy on timber columns, with corrugated plastic roofing, probably replacing glass. Double-hung sash windows with glazing bars, to ground and first floors. Elevation to High Street has 2 storeys, with attics and basement. Ground floor has 2 double-hung sash windows with glazing bars. First floor has 3 similar windows - one now blocked. Two dormers to attic with hipped roof. The interior retains several original panelled doors, and No 133 has a cut-string stair- case with simple balusters and a carved wreathed handrail. South of No 131, the former stables and coach house has Purbeck Stone walls and a modern pantiled roof. Stone wall and gate piers to High Street, with modern iron gates. A good house, important in the street.

Listing NGR: SZ0275978677