49-53 Newtown
49-53 Newtown, Milborne Port, Sherborne, DT9 5BH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056296
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- 49-53 Newtown
- Statutory Address:
- 49-53 Newtown, Milborne Port, Sherborne, DT9 5BH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056296
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 49-53 Newtown
- Statutory Address 1:
- 49-53 Newtown, Milborne Port, Sherborne, DT9 5BH
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:
- 49-53 Newtown, Milborne Port, Sherborne, DT9 5BH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Milborne Port
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 66848 18899
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
11/175
MILBORNE PORT CP
NEWTOWN (North side)
Nos 49 to 53 (inclusive)
(No 49 known as Rosemont previously listed under that name)
24.3.61
GV
II
Block of four cottages, originally five. c1818. Local stone rubble, nos 49 and 50 rendered; thatched roof with hipped and half hipped ends; brick chimney stacks, of which the end group are set diagonally. Two storeys, one bay each house. No 49 has a projection on West gable and a lean-to porch in South West corner; earlier C20 casement windows. No 50 has two bays, of which the second projects; mid C20 casement windows; lean-to glazed and tiled porch in corner, Britannia fire insurance plaque on gable. No 51 incorporates no 52; casement windows; garage doors coupled with entrance door under concrete lintol. No 53 has a semi-octagonal plan projection with conical roof, and a one-storey extension on the East gable: leaded mid C20 casement windows, and late C20 panelled door in side recess.
Interiors not seen.
Newtown is a planned layout, of c1818, with, originally some 80 thatched cottages: it is said to have orginated as a vote-catching scheme. This bock, although altered, retains elements of the original character not seen elsewhere, and helps to illustrate the general concept.
Primarily included for group value.
Listing NGR: ST6684818899
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261912
- 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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