Abbey Guest House
ABBEY GUEST HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1047864
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Guest House
- Statutory Address:
- ABBEY GUEST HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1047864
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Guest House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBEY GUEST HOUSE, 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:
- ABBEY GUEST HOUSE, 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 57880 94216
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 248074
- 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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