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Listed building outline: Dunstone 390670

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Dunstone 390670

• geometry: MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.516514 50.466485,-3.516435 50.466266,-3.516352...
• entry-date: 1974-05-01
• listed-building: 1292417
• name: Dunstone
• notes: Villa, in use as hotel. Said originally to have been one build with the Warberry Nursing Home, adjoining at left. Probably late 1860s. Plastered; slate roof; stacks with rendered shafts with cornices. PLAN: Main block faces south, entrance on east return into passage leading to open well stair hall. Probably secondary north-east block with massive chimney shaft was kitchen, partly infilling earlier stable yard. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-bay east (entrance) front with a pedimented gable and corner pilasters with moulded cornices at first- floor sill level. Projecting porch with panelled corner pilasters, entablature, parapet and ball finials. Hollow-chamfered segmental-headed outer doorway with mahogany panelled door. Centre bay above, flanked by pilasters, contains a 12-pane sash, blind round-headed windows to left-hand bay with pilastered architraves. First-floor window right reglazed in the C20, ground-floor window round-headed with moulded pilastered architrave. Segmental-headed archway to former stable yard at an obtuse angle to the right matches the porch doorway but has been infilled. The left (south) return has a 3:1 window front, the 3-window section broken forward under a pedimented gable and articulated with pilasters with a plain entablature. 3 first-floor 12-pane sashes. Pedimented doorway to left; projecting, flat-roofed, secondary bay window to the right with paired C20 two-pane sashes and a balustraded parapet. Right-hand bay of front in a similar style has one first floor 12-pane sash, ground-floor window converted to doorway into fine Edwardian octagonal conservatory with an octagonal lantern and wrought-iron finial. Conservatory has dentil cornice and high-transomed windows with small panes above the transom. INTERIOR: Very complete with fine staircse; joinery; plasterwork. Said originally to have been built in 1868 by General Redvers Buller Listing NGR: SX9248064046
• reference: 390670
• start-date: 1974-05-01