Listed Building record MDO9351 - Stinsford House, Stinsford

Country house, last used as school. C17 origin, part reconstructed above basement c1828 (building accounts in Dorset County Record Office) following fire damage (Pevsner). Rubble and rough ashlar walls - upper walls part plastered, part ashlar. Slate roof, with moulded parapets, and some coped gables.

Stinsford House is principally of one storey with basements and attics and has walls of coursed rubble, squared rubble, ashlar and brick, partly rendered. The main part of the house has an L-shaped plan, comprising an entrance hall in the north angle, and a long range reaching out to the west. At the east end of the west range is a somewhat lower east wing. In the principal storey these ranges are of the 19th century, but they are built over a high basement which dates from the 17th century. The main entrance in the west side of the north range has an ashlar porch with Roman Doric pilasters. <1>

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Dec 7 2023 1:57PM