28-35 Newtown
28-35 Newtown, Milborne Port, Sherborne, DT9 5BJ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056295
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- 28-35 Newtown
- Statutory Address:
- 28-35 Newtown, Milborne Port, Sherborne, DT9 5BJ
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056295
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- 28-35 Newtown
- Statutory Address 1:
- 28-35 Newtown, Milborne Port, Sherborne, DT9 5BJ
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:
- 28-35 Newtown, Milborne Port, Sherborne, DT9 5BJ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Somerset
- District:
- South Somerset (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Milborne Port
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 66746 18832
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 9 November 2022 to amend the name and address, and reformat the text to current standards
ST6618
11/172
WILBORNE PORT CP
NEWTOWN (North West corner)
Nos 28 to 35 (inclusive)
24.3.61
GV
II
Angle terrace of eight cottages. c1818. Local stone rubble coursed; Thatched hipped and half-hipped roofs nos 33-35; asbestos cement slates no 28; corrugated iron nos 29-30; brick chimney stacks, some rendered and other modified, 'L' plan block with curved ridge, as nos 19-27 (QV). Two storeys, most houses only one bay.
No 28 now two bays, having lean-to single storey extension to South gable; upper storey in the projecting main gable rendered; plain casement windows, late door to side: this house enlarged substantially at rear. No 29 apparently absorbed into 28. No 30 has C20 plain casement windows and late C20 stone and corrugated asbestos sheet porch with eight panel door. No 31 is similar, but with rendered doors to porch and glazed aluminium door.
No 32 has plain casements and earlier boarded door, nos 30-32 have segmental arched heads to lower windows & no 32 has segmental arched doorway. No 33 is the corner house with projecting chamfered gable, with leaded steel casement windows and corner porch shared with no 34, which has a casement below and a steel window above. No 35 has two bays, with lean-to porch in South East corner, bay one projects, with mid C20 small pane casement windows, but over the porch is a leaded semi-circular casement one of the few surviving original windows.
Interiors not seen.
Newtown is a planned layout, of c1818, with originally some 80 thatched cottages; it is said to have originated as a vote-catching scheme.
This terrace although altered, retains a few original details not seen elsewhere, and helps to illustrate the original concept.
Primarily included for group value.
Listing NGR: ST6674618832
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261909
- 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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