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Seaborough Court

A Grade II Listed Building in Seaborough, Dorset

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.8502 / 50°51'0"N

Longitude: -2.8143 / 2°48'51"W

OS Eastings: 342772

OS Northings: 105947

OS Grid: ST427059

Mapcode National: GBR MF.VNV6

Mapcode Global: FRA 46ZV.KDG

Plus Code: 9C2VV52P+37

Entry Name: Seaborough Court

Listing Date: 20 July 1982

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1211688

English Heritage Legacy ID: 396210

ID on this website: 101211688

Location: Seaborough, Dorset, DT8

County: Dorset

Civil Parish: Seaborough

Traditional County: Somerset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset

Church of England Parish: Seaborough St John

Church of England Diocese: Salisbury

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Description


SEABOROUGH SEABOROUGH VILLAGE
ST 40 NW
20.7.82
1/238 Seaborough Court
- II

Country House. 1877, by T H Wyatt. Dressed stone walls, with ashlar
dressings. Clay tile roofs, with 2 gables to the front. Clustered stone
stacks on gable-ends and rear of tower. U-Plan, with entrance front on
east, garden front on south, service wing on north. 2 storeys and attics.
4 bays (east). Bay one: 3-light canted oriel to first floor. Ovolo-stone
mullions and stone roof over. Buttress-support to the corbelled-out oriel.
2-light stone mullion window in gable. Strapwork roundel above. Each
gable has one crow-step set-off and a ball-finial at apex. Bay 2: Tower-
porch entrance: 4-centred arch entrance, moulded jambs, carved spandrels.
Diagonally-set standards frame carved armorial (Gough) and terminate each
in a statue. Single-light first floor window, with cusped panelling in head.
Two loop-lights above. Balustraded cornice. Tower top stage: 2 4-centred
windows with panel tracery square heads; divided by pilasters. Massive
cornice over Open strapwork parapet with urn-finials. Bay 3: 4-light stone
mullion window with 2 cross-transoms. First floor with 2-light stone
mullion window, transomed. Dormer window, 2-light mullion sashed, with a
steep gable over. Bay 4: with square bay window to ground and first, with
2 2-light mullions, cross-transomed. Strapwork parapet to the bay.
Similar, though not identical, window in the gable, to bay one. Same roundel,
gable-coping and finial, as bay one. South elevation, main features:
canted bay at left, of 3 storeys. Right hand bay, has a gable with stacks
coming out of left hand side. Left hand ground: Conservatory, 3 bays with
stone pilaster divisions and foliage capitals. Extreme left (west): Loggia,
dated WEM 1907, 3 bays of Tuscan Order arches. Open fronted. Interior:
Hall at centre, reception rooms to south, dining room and service wing to
north. Hall staircase with barley-sugar, and turned-cube-turned balusters
in pine. Large Perpendicular windows with stained glass armonials, including
arms of Gough.
Source: Mrs de Vallet, owner. N Pevsner, Dorset, p361.


Listing NGR: ST4277205947

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