55, HIGH STREET
55, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1047840
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- 55, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 55, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1047840
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 55, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 55, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 55, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dorchester
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 57755 94358
Details
DORCHESTER HIGH STREET SU5794 (West side) 5/89 No.55 18/07/63 (Formerly listed as house adjoining Bullyn to S)
GV II*
House. 1610 on front, extended C18. Timber framing with rendered infill on clunch rubble plinth; limestone ashlar and brick; old plain-tile roof with brick stacks. 2-unit plan, with rear outshut. 2 storeys plus attics. 6-window front is double-jettied and has moulded bressumers and scroll brackets carved with acanthus and Ionic capitals. At ground and first floors large leaded casements replace oriels for which mortices remain, and are flanked, at first floor, by high-level, 3-light ovolo-moulded mullion windows, restored C20 with diamond glazing. At ground floor similar windows are only on the inner sides and there is an inserted 4-panel door to extreme right. "1610/IH" is inscribed on a stud. Large stack with 4 diagonal shafts rises from the roof slope above the central bay. To left is a single-storey C20 extension. Outshut is of brick on an ashlar lower storey and has dormers. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SU5775594358
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 248119
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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