{"entry-date":"1974-05-01","start-date":"1974-05-01","end-date":"","entity":42148060,"name":"Dunstone","dataset":"listed-building-outline","typology":"geography","reference":"390670","prefix":"listed-building-outline","organisation-entity":344,"geometry":"MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.516514 50.466485, -3.516435 50.466266, -3.516352 50.466277, -3.516347 50.466262, -3.516281 50.466271, -3.516278 50.466259, -3.516243 50.466241, -3.5162 50.466247, -3.516173 50.466273, -3.516199 50.466348, -3.516166 50.466353, -3.516177 50.466387, -3.516212 50.466383, -3.516222 50.466411, -3.516188 50.466453, -3.516235 50.466538, -3.516514 50.466485)))","point":"POINT (-3.516329 50.466391)","quality":"authoritative","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","listed-building":"1292417"}