Listed Building record MDO13854 - Cross House, West Street, Fontmell Magna

A house of two storeys with attics, built around the end of the sixteenth century. The building has walls of ashlar and rubble, and a tiled roof. The original building had a through passage. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

CROSS HOUSE (86661690), of two storeys with attics, has walls of ashlar and of rubble, and a tiled roof. The original house, was built about the end of the 16th century; extensions on the S.E. and N.E. are of the 19th century. The S.W. front is symmetrical and of three bays, with a central doorway with a chamfered four-centred head and continuous jambs ending in shaped stops, and square-headed casement windows of four and three lights with moulded labels. The porch and the stone-fronted attic dormers are modern. <2>

Cross House. Grade II. <3>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey map 1:10,560, 1962 (Map). SDO18658.

(ST 86661690) Cross House (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 24 (Monograph). SDO99.

(9) Cross House (86661690), of two storeys with attics, has walls of ashlar and of rubble, and a tiled roof. The original house, with a variant T-class plan, was built about the end of the 16th century ; extensions on the S.E. and N.E. are of the 19th century. The S.W. front is symmetrical and of three bays, with a central doorway with a chamfered four-centred head and continuous jambs ending in shaped stops, and square-headed casement windows of four and three lights with moulded labels. The porch and the stone-fronted attic dormers are modern. Inside, the S.E. ground-floor room of the original building has moulded wall-plates and beams interesecting to make a ceiling of four panels. The middle compartment of the main range, originally a through passage, was widened and the plank-and-muntin partitions were in part reset when the staircase was built. An exposed beam in the N.E. wing, with deep hollow-chamfered and ovolo mouldings, is of c.1500 ; presumably it comes from elsewhere.

<3> DOE (HHR), List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: North Dorset, 26 (Scheduling record). SDO17666.

Jan 1985

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205993 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Aug 22 2024 8:06PM