Listed Building: DUNHAM HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND STABLE (1.15.2)
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Grade | II |
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Authority | |
EH LBS Legacy ID | 241456 |
Date assigned | 01 February 1967 |
Date last amended |
Description
House and attached walls and stable. C17 and mid C18. House refronted C18. Painted render over red brick with a dressed coursed rubble plinth. Steep hipped slate roof. Wooden eaves cornice. 2 rendered stacks each with 4 shafts. 2 storeys, 5 bays with a first floor band. Central doorway, 3 steps up, with a panelled door and traceried overlight set in reveal and flanked by single fluted Doric pilasters suppointing an entablature with paterae and pediment. Either side are 2 glazing bar sashes with 2 similar sashes above. To the right, set back, is a single storey, 2 bay late C18 red brick and pantile stable with dentil eaves and raised and coped right gable with single pilaster under. Single small glazing bar fixed light with a doorway with stable door to the right. Projecting from the left is a painted brick and pantile lean-to and extending from the right is a single storey 4 bay red brick and pantile C20 range of outbuildings. To the rear of the house is a lower wing. Extending from the south west side of the house is a red brick wall on a dressed coursed rubble base with moulded brick coping, after 3 metres this turns at a right angle, drops down and continues eastwards for 12 metres broken by a central gateway which has single piers with ashlar coping and orb finials flanking an iron gate with 3 semi-circular steps leading down to the pavement. A higher red brick wall with less elaborate coping and broken by a gateway with wooden gate extends eastwards for 17 metres. A similar low wall, broken by a gateway with 2 ashlar coped piers and an iron gate, extends from the south east corner of the house for 3 metres and meets the front wall. Interior. The south west room has late C17 bolection moulded panels and fireplace. The north east room has a large fireplace, now part blocked, with bressummer. There is a late C17 dogleg staircase with turned and twisted balusters. (NCC/js)
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Location
Grid reference | Centred SK 81276 74560 (39m by 29m) |
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Map sheet | SK87SW |
District | Bassetlaw |
Civil Parish | Dunham, Bassetlaw |
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Record last edited
Apr 29 2015 11:39AM