Maiden Newton House

MAIDEN NEWTON SY 5997 CHURCH ROAD, (west side)

10/87 Maiden Newton House 26-1-56 GV II

Rectory, now private house. Dated 1842 stone tablet over doorway: AS (Scott) MDCCCXLII on a stone shield with cusped framing. Greensand rubble and banded stone walls. Ham stone window-frames, and plinth moulding. Clay-tile roofs, stone gable-copings with moulded kneelers. Ham stone stacks, on south range, coupled on east and west elevations with crenellated cornices, and in the angle of the 2 ranges. On north range, 3 C20 stacks, 2 on ridge, one on east gable end. L-Plan house. North-east range, 2 storeys, 3 windows, having stone-mullions, straight-chamfered with pointed arches under a square head separate labels, returned. Cast-iron casements with lozenge-pattern of glazing-bars. Doorway, left of centre, with moulded jambs and a 4-centred head. Panelled C19 door with scroll-hinges. South-range: 2 storeys, gabled at North end, and with a porch at south end. 4 bays total. Windows are all 2-light cast-iron casements with rectilinear pattern of glazing-bars lozenged at the intersections. Buttresses to the centre bays with 2 set-offs each, (staircase well). Porch south of staircase, with pointed-arch entrance, label with head-stops of man and woman. Pointed-arch doorway, has a wooden door, recess-panelled throughout. Stone tablet with carved image of St Christopher over porch entrance. Canted bays, on south end wall, square projecting bay north-west corner.

Interior: original fittings survive intact, and form an interesting example of the period, rib-panel doors, window-shutters, segmental rere-arches to windows, fireplaces. Staircase with octagonal newel and alternating plain (wood) and twisted cast-iron) balusters. (RCHM. Dorset I, p.152 (4).)

Listing NGR: SY5964697848