Tanyard
TANYARD, PENNY STREET, HAM GATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110519
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Tanyard
- Statutory Address:
- TANYARD, PENNY STREET, HAM GATE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110519
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Tanyard
- Statutory Address 1:
- TANYARD, PENNY STREET, HAM GATE
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:
- TANYARD, PENNY STREET, HAM GATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sturminster Newton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 78889 13926
Details
ST 7813 STURMINSTER NEWTON PENNY STREET Ham Gate
9/151 Tanyard (formerly listed as 4.10.60 No 15 Tan Yard)
II
House, late C15 or early C16 origin, alterations in late C16, C17 and C18 (RCHM). Rendered, whitewashed rubble, timber framing and possibly cob. Thatched roof with gable ends. Brick stacks at ends and at quarter way in from right. 2 storeys, 3 window range. Ground floor has an added canted bay with a slate roof and glazing bars. Other ground floor windows are 2-light casements with glazing bars. C20 porch in brick with tiled roof. Upper floor: left - 2 3-light casements of 6-panes; right - 4-light ovolo moulded timber mullioned window of 8-panes. Internally, 4 original cruck trusses (apparently full rather than jointed) are visible in the roof along with other smoke blackened timbers. Other features include C17 balustrade, some deep stopped chamfered beams, a heavy bressummer fireplace and an ovolo moulded timber mullioned window with some original glass to the rear. The house originally was an open hall. "RCHM, Dorset, Vol III", HMSO, 1970, p 279/80, no 27.
Listing NGR: ST7888913926
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 102478
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 279-280
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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