GATEWAY OR SOUTH FRONT TO FORMER ALMSHOUSES

GATEWAY OR SOUTH FRONT TO FORMER ALMSHOUSES, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1108698
Date first listed:: 27-Oct-1950
List Entry Name:: GATEWAY OR SOUTH FRONT TO FORMER ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address:: GATEWAY OR SOUTH FRONT TO FORMER ALMSHOUSES, CHURCH LANE

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Date:: 2001-08-05
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1108698
Date first listed:: 27-Oct-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 07-Sep-1973
List Entry Name:: GATEWAY OR SOUTH FRONT TO FORMER ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address 1:: GATEWAY OR SOUTH FRONT TO FORMER ALMSHOUSES, CHURCH LANE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: GATEWAY OR SOUTH FRONT TO FORMER ALMSHOUSES, CHURCH LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Blandford Forum
National Grid Reference:: ST 88559 06344

Details

1. 865 CHURCH LANE (East Side) Gateway or South front to former almshouses (formerly listed as Municipal Buildings) ST 8806 1/5 27.10.50.

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2. The front originally belonged to Almshouses built in 1736 to replace some destroyed by fire. The Almshouses have now been re-built elsewhere. The front is of the same greenish stone as the Church, It has a pedimented gable with a round window. The lower storey has an arcade of 3 bays, the centre arch semi-circular, the others segmental. Over the latter are sunk panels with now illegible inscriptions. Projecting imposts and keystones. Pavement of knapped flint.

No 5 and the Gateway form a group with the Church.

Listing NGR: ST8856106344

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Legacy System number:: 102133
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.