The Doctor's House
THE DOCTOR'S HOUSE, 71, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047844
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- The Doctor's House
- Statutory Address:
- THE DOCTOR'S HOUSE, 71, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/09306/35
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1047844
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Doctor's House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE DOCTOR'S HOUSE, 71, 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:
- THE DOCTOR'S HOUSE, 71, 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 57708 94474
Details
DORCHESTER HIGH STREET SU5794 (West side) 5/96 No.71 (The Doctor's House) 18/07/63 (Formerly listed as The Doctor's House)
GV II
House and outbuilding. Late C16/early C17, extended and remodelled late C18 and mid/late C19; outbuilding early C18. Timber framing with colourwashed brick infill; some weatherboarding and brick; old plain-tile roof with brick stacks. L-plan. One storey plus attics. 3-window C19 front, with applied timbering to left and centre bays, has a central 4-panel door with a canopy on shaped brackets, casements of one and 2 lights, to left, and a C20 canted bay window to right; first floor has 3 gabled dormers. Roof has ornamental ridge tiles and apex finials, and has stacks to left of centre and to right. Left gable wall has a C19 canted bay window. Earlier rear wing has a 3-unit plan with continuous outshut and is timber framed with some herringbone brick infill. It is partly concealed by a small C18 wing at the junction with the front range. To right of the front is a 3-bay timber-framed outbuilding range, probably originally a barn. The front wall is now brick with the entry to right, but the rear remains weatherboarded. Interior: front range has some chamfered beams and probably incorporates C17/C18 work; outbuilding range has a clasped-purlin roof with queen-strut trusses.
Listing NGR: SU5770894474
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 248126
- 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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