Springhead
SPRINGHEAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110242
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Springhead
- Statutory Address:
- SPRINGHEAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110242
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1985
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Springhead
- Statutory Address 1:
- SPRINGHEAD
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:
- SPRINGHEAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Fontmell Magna
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 87326 16910
Details
FONTWELL MAGNA 2/42
shall be ammended to read:
FONTMELL MAGNA
------------------------------------ ST 81 NE FONTWELL MAGNA
2/42 Springhead
II
House, pair of attached cottages and attached mill house at right angle, now a house and rural resource centre. House appears late C18, cottages early C19 and mill early C19. Linking range between house and mill early C20. Mill by Samuel Bishop. Whitewashed brick walls. House and cottage have thatched roofs, mill has half-hipped tiled roof. Brick stacks to ends of original range and part way along roofs of-cottages. House 2 storeys, cottages one and a half storeys, mill 2 storeys and attics. Original range symmetrical. 3 bays. 2-light casements with leaded-lights, those to the ground floor under stone lintels with keystones. Door was probably central originally, it is now in a later addition to the right. Cottages have a 5-window range. Saw-tooth brick band below dormers. 2-light casements under segmental heads to ground floor, probably original 3-light casements with leaded-lights in dormers. C20 glazed doors left and near centre. Mill has irregular fenestration with casements with glazing-bars. To the right gable wall is a C20 canted bay. Subsequently to its closure as a mill (1881) the building has been used as a factory for the making of bottle-stopping machines and the manu- facture of cheese. During the C20 Springhead became the home of Rolf Gardiner whose pioneer work in ecological conservation, organic farming and environmental philo- sophy are perpetuated in the work of the Springhead Trust. (RCHM, Dorset, Vol IV, p 26, no 31. Brocklebank, Joan 'Springhead, Fontmell Magna: some Historical Notes', 1982.)
Listing NGR: ST8732616910
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103130
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Royal Commission on Historic Monuments; Inventory of Dorset Vol 4, (1972), 31
Other
Brocklebank, Joan , Springhead Fontmell Magne some Historical Notes, 1982,
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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