Description

BEAMINSTER WHITCOMBE ROAD
ST 4701/4801
12.6.53 (SOUTH SIDE)
7/174 No 14 (Hitts House) and
Front walls, wagon-stones
and continuations to
east and west
GV II*

Detached House. Late C17 and C19. Coursed lias stone walls with a
moulded stone cornice. Clay tile roof with stone gable-copings. Renewed
brick stacks at left and right hand gables. 2 storeys and attics. 3
windows, with 3- and 4-light ovolo-stone mullions. No labels. Iron
casements with leaded lights and tension. bars with scroll-terminals.
Dormers with 2-light casements. Front door at centre, stone moulded
jambs with very depressed-arch head. Door, wooden, 6-panelled. Wooden
shell-hood with carved scallop-shell and oak-leaf corners, carried on
wooden brackets, c.1700. Interior: Staircases, main at left hand, late
Cl7, oak with turned balusters, narrow handrail, beaded, square novel-
post with flat pyramidal caps. Service-staircase in right gable wall,
half-spiral to each floor, up to attic, Wooden treads. Roof with
chamfered principals, chamfered cambered collar-beams, and 2 sets of
through-purlins, C17. Early C19 remodelling of house: reeded door-
surrounds, elliptical arches inserted to stairs and front corridor. Bow
window on rear wall.
Front walls and gate-piers C18. Lias rubble walls on a stone plinth.
Stone copings, ramped at either end. Square ashlar gate-piers with
moulded cornices and ball-finials. Small iron gates. 7 wagon-stones to
lane. Listed walling continues for c.4O metres east of house, 12 foot
high, rubble-stone and stone-coped with slight ramping. Listed walls
continue to west of this house along street, and turns up back lane to
south west for c.lO0 metres.
Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p.24(9).

Listing NGR: ST4825501081

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17542821

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)