Brookhouse

BROOKHOUSE, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1110243
Date first listed:
16-Aug-1960
List Entry Name:
Brookhouse
Statutory Address:
BROOKHOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1110243
Date first listed:
16-Aug-1960
Date of most recent amendment:
28-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:
Brookhouse
Statutory Address 1:
BROOKHOUSE, CHURCH STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BROOKHOUSE, CHURCH STREET

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 86628 16923

Details

FONTWELL MAGNA 8/46

shall be ammended to read:

FONTMELL MAGNA

------------------------------------ ST 8616 FONTWELL MAGNA CHURCH STREET (East Side)

8/46 Brookhouse 16-8-60 GV II

House, C16 with C17 and C18 additions. Rubble and timber-frame with brick infil. Half-hipped, thatched roof. Brick stacks to ends of possible original house. One and a half storeys, irregular fenestration. L-plan. Some ground floor windows have brick dressings. Mainly 2 and 3-light casements with glazing-bars. Plank door adjacent to left chimneystack.

Internal features (RCHM): deep chamfered ceiling beams, those in the north-west room intersecting to form a 9-panel ceiling; open fireplace with cambered timber bressumer. (RCHM, Dorset, Vol IV, p 24, no 10)

Listing NGR: ST8662816923

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Legacy System number:
103134
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Royal Commission on Historic Monuments; Inventory of Dorset Vol 4, (1972), 24

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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