Lilac Cottage and the Lilacs
LILAC COTTAGE AND THE LILACS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067416
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Lilac Cottage and the Lilacs
- Statutory Address:
- LILAC COTTAGE AND THE LILACS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067416
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Lilac Cottage and the Lilacs
- Statutory Address 1:
- LILAC COTTAGE AND THE LILACS
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:
- LILAC COTTAGE AND THE LILACS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ryme Intrinseca
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 58174 10912
Details
ST 51 SE RYME INTRINSECA
Lilac Cottage and The Lilacs
1/10002
II
Pair of semi-detached houses. 1928, possibly by Petter and Warren. Concrete block cavity walls. Steel roof structure of segmental section clad in corrugated-iron sheets. Red brick axial stack. PLAN: Pair of semi-detached houses. EXTERIOR: Two storeys. Symmetrical4-window south front in wide segmental arch gable end. later C20 casements and doors to left and right with canopies, the right-hand doorway has been blocked and the canopy removed. At the rear IN] most of the original 2-light wooden casements remain and are complete with glazing bars. later C20 glazed porch and conservatory on either side. INTERIOR largely intact, but the partition between the two principal rooms of the left house has been removed. Original roof structure with T -section curved trusses and timber purlins. NOTE: The design of this pair of houses was based on the principals that Lt Colonel Nissen, of the Royal Engineers, used in the construction of First World War Nissen huts. There are similar houses in Barwick, Yeovil, West Camel in South Somerset District, and in Bampton in Mid Devon District.
Listing NGR: ST5817410912
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477107
- 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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