Abbey Guest House Dorchester, England
Listed Building Data
Abbey Guest House has been designated a Grade II* listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1047864
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II*
- Date Listed
- 18 July 1963
- Name
- ABBEY GUEST HOUSE
- Location
- ABBEY GUEST HOUSE, HIGH STREET
- Parish
- Dorchester
- District
- South Oxfordshire
- County
- Oxfordshire
- Grid Reference
- SU 57880 94216
- Easting
- 457880.0000
- Northing
- 194216.0000
Listed Building Description
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DORCHESTER HIGH STREET SU5794 5/45 (East side) 18/07/63 Abbey Guest House
GV II*
Monastic guest house, now museum and tea room. Late C15. Limestone rubble and timber framing with plaster and brick infill; old plain-tile roof with brick stacks. 3-unit plan. 2 storeys. Rubble front has 2 entrances and, to left and centre, tall leaded casements, those at ground floor with labels. Windows in right bay have C18/C19 segmental arches, but a blocked original window retains the trefoiled heads of 2 lights with recessed spandrels. The right end of the wall has the left jamb and springing stone of an arched doorway. Roof has a lateral stack, to left, and a ridge stack, to right. Ends and rear are timber framed in large panels with a full-length rear jetty on curved brackets. Rear has herringbone brick infill at ground floor, leaded casements with ogee mullions, and a blocked 4-centre arched doorway. Right gable wall has a timber-framed staircase addition. Interior: C17 oak panelling; remains of a rear gallery; clasped-purlin roof with queen strut trusses and arched windbraces. The building was converted to a school in 1652.
Listing NGR: SU5788094216
