Description

MELBURY SAMPFORD
ST 50 NE MELBURY HOUSE
2/120 The Turret
GV II*
Garden-House free-standing. c.C16, with C18 additions in Gothick style.
Coursed rubble-stone with ashlar dressings. Hexagonal building, with
plinth-mould, moulded string and embattled parapet with crocketed pinnacles
at the angles. The entrance, on the south face, has a depressed-ogee moulded
arch, springing from slender clustered jamb-shafts with crocketed terminals.
Over it is a traceried panel in two heights. Interior: of one stage, has
a semi-circular niche opposite the entrance, with round head under an ogee
label. The hexagonal ceiling is ogee-shaped with moulded angle-ribs, and
is painted with shields of arms. On his 1762 visit to Melbury, Horace Walpole
mentions the new decoration of shields of arms inside. The building is
hexagonal, not octagonal.
(RCHM. Dorset I, p.167(2))

Listing NGR: ST5763405986

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17542731

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2