Listed Building record MDO14689 - Longburton House, Longburton

House in grounds built 1908-9 by M H Baillie Scott for Mr Edward Bartlett in Arts and Crafts style, and incorporating a considerable quantity of old materials from demolished buildings in the locality, stonework from Yetminster, Stoke-sub-Hamdon, Martock, Tintinhull. The building has coursed rubble-stone walls with ashlar quoins and a stone slate roof with stone gable-copings to main ridges and dormers, with moulded kneelers.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 62 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(2) BURTON HOUSE, ½ m. N. of the church, is a modern building incorporating a considerable quantity of old materials and fittings from demolished buildings in the neighbourhood. The S. doorway, some mullioned windows, stone fireplaces, ceiling-beams and panelling came from the Old Court Farm at Batcombe. Other stonework details came from Yetminster, Stoke-sub-Hambdon, Martock, Tintinhull, etc. The sundial, dated 1700, came from Pennard Hill and a fire-back of 1606 from Wootton Glanville. In the hall is some early 16th-century linen-fold panelling from Sherborne. There is also much 17th-century panelling.’

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Mar 17 2015 12:26PM