Max Gate
Max Gate | |
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General information | |
Town or city | Dorchester, Dorset |
Coordinates | 50°42′29″N 2°25′12″W / 50.7081°N 2.4200°W |
Max Gate is the former home of
Description
The house is a Grade I listed building, having been so designated since 8 May 1970. It was designed by Thomas Hardy and built out of red brick in 1885 in Queen Anne style. The architecture is more similar to country houses designed by Philip Webb rather than those designed by Richard Norman Shaw.[1]
Thomas Hardy had purchased one and a half acres of land to build the house and was delighted to find Roman relics on the land. The building work was done by his father, who was a builder, and his brother. The name of the house was a pun on the name of a nearby
History
Hardy designed and lived in Max Gate from 1885 until his death in 1928. He lived there with his first wife
In 1940, Hardy's sister Kate left the house to the
Neolithic archaeology
Half of the 100m diameter Neolithic interrupted ditch enclosure known as Flagstones is under the grounds of Max Gate; the other half was archaeologically excavated in 1987 prior to the construction of the Dorchester bypass.[5]
References
- ^ "MAX GATE, Dorchester - 1110618 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 23 June 2022.
- ISBN 978-0-7864-1268-6.
- ^ a b c d "Thomas Hardy bedrooms to open at Max Gate, Dorchester". BBC News. 12 April 2013.
- ^ a b "Thomas Hardy's study at Max Gate in Dorchester opens". BBC News. 28 February 2011.
- ^ Roland J C Smith, 1997, Excavations along the Route of the Dorchester Bypass, Dorset Wessex Archaeology Report
External links
Media related to Max Gate, Dorchester at Wikimedia Commons
- Max Gate at the National Trust
- Max Gate, painting by John Everett