Listed Building record MDO43226 - Silton House, formerly The Rectory, Silton

A house built around the middle of the eighteenth century, with 19th-century additions at the rear. The building is now a house, but was formerly the rectory. The building has walls of ashlar and rubble and slate roofs. Surviving original features are reported to include ceiling beams and a fireplace surround.

ST 78132939. The Rectory of two storeys with walls of rubble and ashlar has a principal range of the 18th century with 19th century additions at the rear. At the centre of the south east front is a projecting two-storeyed gabled bay with a round-headed doorway on the ground floor. <2>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1962 (Map). SWX1540.

(ST 78132939) Rectory (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2, 78 (Monograph). SDO149.

‘(4) THE RECTORY (78132939), 120 yds. W. of (1), is two-storeyed and has walls of ashlar and rubble, and slated roofs. The principal range is of the 18th century and there are 19th-century additions at the rear. At the centre of the S.E. front is a projecting two-storeyed gabled bay with a round-headed doorway on the ground floor, a sashed window above and a small casement window in the attic. In the lateral bays of the S.W. front the fenestration is asymmetrical and in part masked, but it is probable that the façade originally was symmetrical and of three bays. Inside, several rooms have 18th-century ceiling beams of shallow cross-section; one room has an 18th-century fireplace surround, with stone jambs with moulded panelling and a panelled and shouldered lintel shaped at the centre to represent a fluted keystone.’

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 202344 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 8 2022 10:35AM