Listed Building record MDO23497 - Littleton House, Blandford St Mary

LITTLETON HOUSE (89500480) is brick-built in two-storeys, with cellars and attics. The main block, dating from late in the 18th century, was built in two stages, the central range being extended to N.E. and S.W. soon after it was built. In the 19th century various additions were made at the N.E. end of the range. <2>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1968 (Map). SWX1540.

(ST 89500480) Littleton House

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 43 (Monograph). SDO146.

‘(5) LITTLETON HOUSE (89500480) is brick-built in two storeys, with cellars and attics. The main block, dating from late in the 18th century, was built in two stages, the central range being extended to N.E. and S.W. soon after it was built. In the 19th century various additions were made at the N.E. end of the range.
In the symmetrical N.W. front, which has a high proportion of header bricks, the first phase of construction comprising five bays is distinguishable, by perpendicular joints in the brickwork, from the two-bay additions at each end. The whole façade is capped by a light cornice with paterae at intervals in a band of fluting; over it the hipped roof is masked by a parapet, now partly cut away. The central doorway, at the top of a flight of stone steps, has an elliptical fanlight and a flat-roofed porch with two freestanding Ionic columns. All windows are sashed and have elliptical heads with stone impost blocks, keystones and sills. The dormer windows also have elliptical-headed sashes. The S.E. elevation is of English-bonded brickwork and is capped by a dentilled brick cornice and a parapet. The E. part of the S.E. front is hidden by later additions, which incorporate a reset 18th-century elliptical-headed doorway; the original windows are square-headed and sashed; at ground-floor level one opening has been superseded by a late 19th-century bay window.’

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205704 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Mar 10 2022 3:44PM