Fontmell Parva House

Fontmell Parva House is a house built around 1665, with wings added around 1864. The original house was likely constructed for Edward St Loe of Knighton, while the 19th-century work was done for the Bower family by George Evans of Wimborne. The building is made of brick in English Bond with ashlar dressings. It features a hipped roof, with the main range covered in stone slates and the wings tiled. The central brick stack has blind arcading, with additional stacks for the later wings. There is a coved cornice and 19th-century carved gabled dormers. The wings include a stone plat band and the overall design is symmetrical. The house has two storeys, semi-basements, and attics, with a seven-window range, five of which belong to the original house. The windows are ashlar mullioned with moulded architraves and keystones. The central doorway is approached by a flight of stairs, flanked by parapets with ball finials. This doorway features an architrave, a pulvinated frieze, and a broken pediment. The ends and central bays have open 19th-century gables, and there are bulls-eye windows on the sides of the porches.

Inside, the layout consists of two main rooms on either side of a central stack in the original range. The main rooms are adorned with fielded panelling made from Honduras Mahogany. The entrance lobby includes a shell-headed niche, and the bedrooms feature 17th-century oak panelling.