STEPS HOUSE

STEPS HOUSE, DROVES LANE, EAST ORCHARD, SP7 0LH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1110453
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:: STEPS HOUSE
Statutory Address:: STEPS HOUSE, DROVES LANE, EAST ORCHARD, SP7 0LH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1110453
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:: STEPS HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: STEPS HOUSE, DROVES LANE, EAST ORCHARD, SP7 0LH

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: STEPS HOUSE, DROVES LANE, EAST ORCHARD, SP7 0LH

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: East Orchard
National Grid Reference:: ST8363816593

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15/06/2015

ST 81 NW 5/5

EAST ORCHARD Droves Lane Steps House

(Formerly listed as Whitegate Farmhouse, EAST ORCHARD)

II Farmhouse, c1700 with later C18 rear wing. Squared rubble walls, rear wing in brick. Steep hipped, thatched roof with brick stacks rising from behind ridge. Symmetrical, 2 storeys and attics, 3 window range. 2-light casements with glazing bars. C20 glazed double doors.

RCHM, Dorset, vol IV, p15, no 6.

Listing NGR: ST8363816593

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Legacy System number:: 102637
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Royal Commission on Historic Monuments; Inventory of Dorset Vol 4, (1972), 15

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.