The War Office
THE WAR OFFICE, HIGHER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110196
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The War Office
- Statutory Address:
- THE WAR OFFICE, HIGHER STREET
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- 2001-05-05
- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110196
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The War Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE WAR OFFICE, HIGHER STREET
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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:
- THE WAR OFFICE, HIGHER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Iwerne Minster
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 86678 14513
Details
ST 8614 IWERNE MINSTER HIGHER STREET
10/137 The War Office
GV II
Shelter containing notice boards c.1920 by Giles Gilbert Scott for J. Ismay. Square rubbble walls with Doulting stone dressings, tiled roof. Gable has sculpted relief of Mercury with electric rays emanating from his hands representing the dissemination of news by wireless. The shelter stems from the practice, established during World War I, of posting newspapers of a variety of political views, together with telegraph bulletins, on a board over the village pump for the information of villagers. It is now used as a general parish notice board. (P Anderson Graham 'Iwerne Minster before, during and after the Great War', privately printed, probably 1927).
Listing NGR: ST8667814514
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103227
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Anderson, G P, Iwerne Minster before during and after the Great War, (1927)
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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