Listed Building: DUNHAM HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND STABLE (1.15.2)

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Grade II
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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Grid reference Centred SK 81276 74560 (39m by 29m)
Map sheet SK87SW
District Bassetlaw
Civil Parish Dunham, Bassetlaw

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Apr 29 2015 11:39AM

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