Listed Building: CHARMOUTH HOUSE HOTEL (400288)

SY 3693 CHARMOUTH THE STREET, SOUTH SIDE 8/41 Charmouth House Hotel 3.11.70 - II Hotel, formerly Inn and some time private house, c C17 and with C19 and C20 refashioning. Stone walls, plastered. Thatch roof, hipped at east end and gabled at west end with a stone coping. 3 stacks at east end eaves (rendered), at centre: ridge, at west gable end. Plan: main range-along street with 2 return wings to south at each end. North elevation: 2 storeys. 6 windows, wooden casements with renewed cross-transoms in the west 3 bays and 3-lighters with glazing bars in east 3 bays. Front wall projects forward by 4 feet in the west 3 bays. Front door to street, at centre: wooden door with 6 panels, four glazed and a fluted pilaster doorcase. Plastic thatch canopy over. Return wings: west with coursed rubble stone wall, curved and washed. Thatch roof, hipped at south end, with 2 brick stacks on ridge. 2 small sliding- sash windows. 1 cellar-door, 2-leaf with heavy wood lintel over. East wing of 2 storeys, 5 windows, C19 sashes and 3 rendered stacks at eaves. Projecting stack to the one nearest street. C20 door at centre. Interior: ceiling beams in present hall, hollow-chamfered and roll-moulded originally making large compartments. Extensive flagstone floors in western end. "RCHM, Dorset I", p 89 (9). Listing NGR: SY3622493583

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