Listed Building: KITT HILL HOUSE INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND RAILINGS AND WALL TO REAR GARDEN ALONG KITT HILL (103944)

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Grade II
Authority Historic England
Volume/Map/Item 689/1/77
Date assigned 28 November 1950
Date last amended

Description

CORNHILL 1. 1625 (West Side) ST 6316 1/77 28.11.50. Kitt Hill House Including front garden walls and railings and wall to rear garden along Kitt Hill II GV 2. 2-storey, 6 window C18 front, modern pebble dash finish. Plaintile gabled roof; stone coping and moulded kneelers to gable ends. 4 dormers with segmental heads. Sash windows with glazing bars. Projecting porch has Tuscan columns, entablature and blocking course; panelled reveals; 6-panelled door with top 2 panels cut away and glazed. Lower 2-storey wing to left hand connects Cornhill House and Kitt Hill House. Slate gabled roof. Stone rubble. 1 sash window with glazing bars above; modern garage entry below [See Cornhill House under Acreman Street). Small front garden above road level has stone dwarf wall with ashlar wing. Late C18 to C19 railings; railings have uprights with spear-shaped finials; square standards with urn finials at intervals. Wall and railings continue round north corner and return westward up Kitt Hill. From a point opposite west end of Kitt Hill House, a high garden wall of stone rubble continues westward up Kitt Hill. Kitt Hill House including garden walls and railings forms a group with Cornhill House, including front garden railings and wing to north east and Digby Estate Nos 121 and 122 Acreman Street. Listing NGR: ST6343616852

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Location

Grid reference ST 6343 1685 (point)
Civil Parish Sherborne; Dorset
District (historic) West Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

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Feb 18 2019 9:44AM