Vine House, Including Front Garden Wall And Gate Piers

Vine House, located on the north side of Penny Street in Sturminster Newton, is a house with a 17th-century range on the left, a wing dating to around 1700 at the rear, and an 18th-century addition on the right. The building features a combination of ashlar and rubble stonework, with a tiled roof that has stone slate verges, gabled to the left and half-hipped to the right. There are stone stacks at the ends of the original range and at the rear of the 18th-century addition.

The house is two storeys high with an attic and consists of five bays. The ground floor of the original range includes one three-light and one four-light square stone mullioned window, both with hollow chamfered mullions and jambs, and leaded lights. The same window pattern is repeated on the first floor, which retains some early glass. There are two hipped dormers in the roof, each with three-light wooden casements featuring leaded lights. The 18th-century addition has four three-light sash windows with glazing bars beneath flat arches, flanking a two-panel door topped with a round fanlight. A 19th-century wooden lattice porch with a round hood is present, along with an insurance plaque above the door.

Inside, the house features a 17th-century staircase, likely reset, along with 17th-century panelling that includes moulded through rails and interrupted stiles. The ceilings boast deep chamfered intersecting beams and other deep chamfered beams, with some reed and plaster ceilings. An Ionic doorcase can be found in the front room. The property is enclosed by a brick wall along the road, topped with a stone coping, and includes gate piers with ball finials. Notably, the Dorset poet William Barnes worked as a solicitor's clerk at this location for three years.