Listed Building record MDO13621 - Premises of Market Cross Antiques and the Market Cross Gallery, Market Cross, Sturminster Newton
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Summary
House, now shop, office and flats, built about 1500 and extensively altered and added to in seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Built of brick and rubble, some parts roughcast. Roof tiled with some stone slate verges, gabled and half-hipped. There are a number of irregularly positioned brick stacks. At the south end of the east wing are the remains of a large chimney in squared greensand. To the north of the same wing is a chimney of probably eighteenth century origin. The ground floor has double doors under a segmental arch to the left, a three light nineteenth century shop front, another door and a fixed three light window.
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Type and Period (7)
- HOUSE (Elizabethan to Stuart - 1600 AD to 1699 AD)
- SHOP (Georgian to Victorian - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)
- HOUSE (Stuart to Georgian - 1700 AD to 1799 AD)
- CROSS WING HOUSE (Medieval to Tudor - 1480 AD to 1520 AD)
- OPEN HALL HOUSE (Medieval to Tudor - 1480 AD to 1520 AD)
- CRUCK HOUSE (Medieval to Tudor - 1480 AD to 1520 AD)
- SHOP (Victorian to Late 20th Century - 1900 AD to 1999 AD)
Full Description
House, now the premises of PD and CJ Mount (formerly Bere Regis Bus Office). Ca.1500, but extensively altered from the C17th-C20th. Originally an open hall with an East cross-wing. <1-2>
Sources/Archives (3)
- <1> SDO136 Monograph: Royal Commission on Historic Monuments. 1970. An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2. 2. 277.
- <2> SWX1290 Monograph: Newman, J, and Pevsner, N. 1972. The Buildings of England: Dorset. 407.
- <3> SDO14739 Digital archive: National Record of the Historic Environment. 1001612.
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Location
Grid reference | Centred ST 78661 14073 (18m by 12m) |
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Map sheet | ST71SE |
Civil Parish | Sturminster Newton; Dorset |
Unitary Authority | Dorset |
Protected Status/Designation
Other Statuses/References
- Legacy UID: National Monuments Record: ST 71 SE 39
- Legacy UID: National Record of the Historic Environment: 1001612
- Royal Commission Inventory Reference: Sturminster Newton 7
Record last edited
Jan 22 2023 8:28AM