Fire Engine House
FIRE ENGINE HOUSE, CHAPEL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1088098
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Fire Engine House
- Statutory Address:
- FIRE ENGINE HOUSE, CHAPEL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1088098
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Fire Engine House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FIRE ENGINE HOUSE, CHAPEL LANE
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:
- FIRE ENGINE HOUSE, CHAPEL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Maiden Newton
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 59735 97805
Details
MAIDEN NEWTON
443/0/10006 CHAPEL LANE
09-AUG-02 FIRE ENGINE HOUSE
II
Fire engine house. Built in 1842-3, by W. Childs, builder; doors repaired or replaced 1910. Flemish stretcher bond red brick; south east side flint and rubble. Welsh state roof with gabled ends. Small rectangular single-cell plan building with plank double doors at north east end, the gable above clad in vertical boards.
INTERIOR: Purbeck stone flag threshold. Two timber rails set into flint and chalk floor.
The fire engine house was purpose-built to house a circa early C19 hand pump, now kept in Maiden Newton Fire Station.
A rare example of a purpose-built village fire engine house, complete with its original fire engine.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489674
- 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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