Listed Building record MDO15129 - The Cedars, Long Street, Sherborne

Unusual front in that the lower half is pebble-dash, the upper half stucco. Grade 2*. <3>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 219 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(79) The Cedars, house 55 yards E.N.E. of (78), is stucco-fronted. It was built probably in the 18th century and refronted towards the middle of the 19th century. The street front (Plate 102) has a chamfered stone plinth, continuous flat string enriched with key ornament at first-floor level, breaking round the door heads and forming the frieze of their entablatures, widely projecting eaves-cornice enriched with mutules and paterae and a stone parapet; the two doorways have flanking Ionic pilasters and enriched entablatures with wide cornices; there is linear panel decoration over the first-floor windows. The detail throughout is of considerable refinement. The stucco on the ground floor has been replaced with pebble-dash.
Incorporated in the garden-wall and in the garden are a number of architectural fragments probably from the abbey; they include a 12th-century colonette, 13th-century capital, window-heads, etc.’

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1964 (Map). SWX1197.

(ST 64301670) The Cedars (NAT)

<3> DOE (HHR), 1973, List of Buildings of Special Historic and Architectural Interest: West Dorset Urban District of Sherborne, 99 (Scheduling record). SDO17491.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 887504 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Aug 23 2024 1:05PM