Listed Building record MDO9497 - Long Crichel House, Long Crichel

Long Crichel House, formerly the Rectory, is of two storeys with attics, and has walls of ashlar and of banded flint and brick, and a tiled roof. It was built to replace the old rectory of Moor Crichel, demolished in 1776, and bears an inscription of 1786. The stables (see MDO45319) are located some 30 yards south east of the house and also date from about 1786.

(ST 97851022) Long Crichel House (NAT). <2>

Long Crichel House, formerly the Rectory, is of two storeys with attics, and has walls of ashlar and of banded flint and brick, and a tiled roof. It was built to replace the old rectory of Moor Crichel, demolished in 1776, and bears an inscription of 1786. The stables, some 30 yards south east of the house have brick walls and slate covered roofs, and also date from about 1786. <1,3> [Note: The stables are recorded separately as MDO45319]

<1> DOE (HHR), 1951, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Wimborne and Cranborne RD, 13 (Scheduling record). SDO17339.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 38, No 2 (Monograph). SDO129.

'(2) Long Crichel House (97851022), formerly the Rectory, is of two storeys with attics and has walls of ashlar and of banded flint and brick, and a tiled roof; it was built to replace the old rectory of Moor Crichel, demolished in 1776, and bears an inscription of 1786 (Hutchins III, 487). The house originally had a class-U plan, but the interior has been altered in recent years.

The W. front is symmetrical and of three bays with plain sashed windows in the upper storey. In the lower storey the lateral bays are masked by late 19th-century bow windows; the former central doorway has been moved to the N. front and the aperture blocked, but the inscription of 1786 remains in situ above the blocking. On the N. front, the reset central doorway has an open-pediment hood on scrolled brackets, and an elliptical fanlight with traceried glazing-bars. In the symmetrical three-bay S. front the sashed windows have been enlarged; the central bays in each storey have blind recesses. Adjacent on the E. is a two-storeyed service wing with brick walls and a tiled roof. Inside the house, the principal rooms have moulded cornices, doorways with moulded architraves and doors with fielded panels. The stairs, with moulded strings and slender turned balusters, have been modified in accordance with the recent replanning of the house.

Stables, some 30 yds. S.E. of the house, with brick walls and slate-covered roofs, have symmetrical three-bay N. and S. fronts and are of c. 1786.'

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 210123 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Jul 3 2023 3:30PM