Listed Building record MDO12722 - Grosvenor House, Bleke Street, Shaftesbury

A three-storey house built in the eighteenth century. The main building on Bleke Street is thought originally to have been a two storey brick structure, but the north front was refaced in rubble and ashlar and a third storey added in the second half of the nineteenth century. Formerly the High School for Girls. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 69 (Monograph). SDO99.

‘(55) HOUSE, now a school, on the corner of Bleke Street and Parson's Pool, is of three storeys, with walls of brick and of ashlar and with slated and tile-covered roofs; it dates from the 18th century. The main building, on Bleke Street, appears originally to have been of brick and two-storeyed, but in the second half of the 19th century the N. front was refaced in rubble and ashlar; the third storey was added at the same time. The brick S. front is symmetrical and of five bays, with a square-headed central doorway and with tall sashed windows in the two lower storeys. The plinth is of squared rubble and the level of the first floor is indicated by a projecting brick platband. Inside, some rooms have 18th-century panelling and moulded wooden cornices; a few doors retain brass rimlocks.
Adjacent on the E., an extension to the school, of two storeys with an attic, with square rubble walls and with a tiled roof, dates probably from the early 19th century. The W. front was originally symmetrical and of five bays, with segmental-headed casement windows of two and of three lights and with a segmental-headed central doorway; this doorway has now been converted into a window.’

<2> English Heritage, 2006, Listed buildings data disk (Digital archive). SDO12545.

Record last edited

Mar 3 2021 11:44AM