OX House
OX HOUSE, 13, BIMPORT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1108758
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- OX House
- Statutory Address:
- OX HOUSE, 13, BIMPORT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1108758
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-1973
- List Entry Name:
- OX House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OX HOUSE, 13, BIMPORT
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:
- OX HOUSE, 13, BIMPORT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shaftesbury
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 85982 22919
Details
1. 1615 BIMPORT (North-West Side) No 13 (Ox House) (Formerly listed as No 13 Old Grove Place) ST 8522 6/25 20.6.52. II* 2. 2-storey stone ashlar house, probably late C16 to early C17. Recently restored. L-shaped. Gable-ends with stone copings. Plaintiles (recent) to roof. The front has a projecting 2-storey porch wing, the upper storey of which is plastered. The doorway is a modern reproduction, but the inner door has moulded stone jambs and a 4-centred arch. Windows have hollow- chamfered stone frames and mullions with later sashes inserted. Hood moulds to 1st floor windows, continuous weathermould above ground floor openings. 4-centre-arched doorway at rear. Paired chimneys of stone ashlar with moulded caps at each gable-end. Interior has moulded stud and panel partitions. Early C17 fireplaces. See RCHM. The house is the original of the 'Ox Ian" in Thomas Hardy's 'Jude the Obscure." Important for its internal features.
Listing NGR: ST8601022951
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 101980
- 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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