Listed Building: PENTRIDGE HOUSE (107414)

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Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1173/3/77
Date assigned 03 April 1986
Date last amended

Description

PENTRIDGE SU 01 NW PENTRIDGE VILLAGE (South-east side) 3/77 Pentridge House GV II Rectory, now private house, early C19. Rendered and whitewashed with tiled roofs and end brick stacks. 2 parallel ranges. Symmetrical, 2-storeys and attics, 3-bays. 12-pane sashes. Ground floor has 2 canted bays. Central, part-glazed door with moulded, lugged architrave and flat hood on brackets. Internal features (RCHM): some rooms retain original joinery including round-headed niche with shaped shelves; stairs with vase-and-column balusters, Tuscan newel-posts and scroll spandrels. Thomas Hardy, the poet and novelist, is reputed to have lived in the house at one time. (RCHM, Dorset, vol V, p 54, no. 3). Listing NGR: SU0345817745

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Location

Grid reference SU 0345 1774 (point)
Civil Parish Pentridge; Dorset
District (historic) East Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

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Record last edited

Nov 5 2007 3:22AM