Rodden House

SY 68 SW ABBOTSBURY RODDEN

6/54 Rodden House 26.1.56 GV II*

Large detached House. Early C18. Grey ashlar stone walls, with rusticated quoins. Projecting central bay with rusticated quoins. Central pediment with a wooden modillion cornice. Side walls, at left rubble-stone, at right ashlar. Hipped slate roofs. Brick stack on left rear hip, brick and rusticated stone stack at right hand ridge. 2 storeys with cellars and attics. 3 windows, sashes with thick glazing-bars, moulded stone architraves, projecting dropped keystones, stone cills each with 2 consoles. Front doorway at centre with round-headed architrave, with projecting imposts and keystone. Outer framing of plain pilaster strips with shallow volutes supporting a moulded cornice. Door, flush-panelled at bottom with 6 glass panels over. Semi-circular fanlight with glazing-bars, C18. North side wall has 3-light stone mullions, with hollow chamfers. Rounded labels over the ground floor. 3-light wooden casements over with horizontal glazing-bars. Doorway with projecting stone key at centre. Stone sleeper wall to front garden, with a pair of low rusticated gate-piers with imposts and pyramidal caps. Iron railings on sleeper wall, with an iron gate at centre with spear-finials and urn- finials at the intersections.

Listing NGR: SY6111984215