Listed Building: HORN PARK (105069)

BEAMINSTER ST 40 SE 4/10 Horn Park - II Large House. 1911 by T. Lawrence Dale in Queen Anne style. East elevation: coursed lias rubble walls and ashlar dressings. Applied quoin-work. Stone plat band. Hipped tile roofs of bell-cast shape. Heavy wood cornice contains guttering. 2 stone stacks just below ridge with moulded cornices. Further stacks along South elevation. 2 storeys and attics. 5 windows, sashes with wide glazing-bars, wide flush wooden frames, wooden cills. 5 Dormers, 2-light casements and glazing bars with hipped tile roofs over with boxed eaves. Door at centre, has a portico with Tuscan order square piers (coupled) and a single Tuscan column to front. Large open segmental pediment over with a recess-panelled soffit. Original entrance on south elevation. Tuscan pilaster surround with open and broken segmental pediment over. Stone cartouche with arms of Pinneys and cornucopia. Door is wood with 15 panels. Interior: Drawing-room with segmental and cross-vaulted plaster ceiling. Fireplace with thin rinceaux and cornucopia. Elliptical-arch corridor with plasterwork roses. Doors are bolection-moulded in 2 panels. Staircase with turned wooden balusters. Source: N. Pevsner, Dorset, p 88-9. Listing NGR: ST4652202789

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Oct 29 2018 9:18AM