St LO Farmhouse

ST LO FARMHOUSE, THE CROSS

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1110445
Date first listed:
04-Oct-1960
List Entry Name:
St LO Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
ST LO FARMHOUSE, THE CROSS
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1110445
Date first listed:
04-Oct-1960
Date of most recent amendment:
20-Dec-1983
List Entry Name:
St LO Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
ST LO FARMHOUSE, THE CROSS

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:
ST LO FARMHOUSE, THE CROSS

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

District:
Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Okeford Fitzpaine
National Grid Reference:
ST 80664 10913

Details

OKEFORD FITZPAINE THE CROSS ST 8010 15/116 St Lo Farmhouse (previously 4.10.60 listed as St Loe's Farmhouse) GV II House, early C16 with additions and alterations, late C16, 1638 and C19/20. Rubble, banded rubble and flint, timber frame with brick nogging, rubble dressings. Thatched roof with gable and half-hipped ends. Brick stacks to end of range and left of cross passage. Half-hipped cross-wing left. Later outshut centre. 2 storeys and single storey with attic, irregular fenestration. Casements of 3, 4 and 5-lights with leaded lights. Upper floor left window has remains of hood mould. C20 wooden door. Internally there is a beaded plank door hung on strap hinges in a doorway with moulded timber jambs and lintel, a number of doorways with chamfered surrounds with ornamental stops, shouldered abutments and heads with raised centres. There are a number of plank and muntin partitions. C16 groundfloor fireplace with carved surround with moulded timber jambs and cupsed tracery panelling on the bressummer. C17 moulded plasterwork on first-floor chimney piece. Original range has jointed cruck trusses. Possibly originated as an open hall house. "RCHM, Dorset, vol III", p 204, no 6.

Listing NGR: ST8066410913

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Legacy System number:
102617
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 204

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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