Doniet House

ST3514 1939-1/6/134 29/07/76

ILMINSTER STATION ROAD (South side) Doniet House (Formerly Listed as: STATION ROAD (South side) No.33 (Westerholme). Doniet House)

GV II

House. c1700, refronted c1800. Stucco with Ham Hill stone dressings, plain tile roof and brick stacks to gable ends. 2-unit plan. 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. 3 small C19 gabled dormers to the roof, 6/6-pane sashes with raised stone surrounds to the first floor. A Tuscan stone porch with octagonal column, over a C19 eight-panel door, flanked by late C19 single-storey stone canted bays with dentilled cornices which have 1/1-pane sashes almost to floor level. INTERIOR: The only evidence of the original building is in the roof, which is 5-bay collar-truss with tenoned purlins, cut away for the C18 dormers. There is a large hall with a c1800 open-well open-string staircase with fretted ends and a wreathed handrail and curtail-step, a blocked margin-pane overlight behind the c1860 porch. Upstairs are Regency-style architraves with roundels-in-squares corners and reeded cornices. The cornices to the ground-floor rooms, the ceiling rose, and the polychromatic tiles to the hall floor are c1860.

Listing NGR: ST3544714787