Sturt Farmhouse
STURT FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110563
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Sturt Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- STURT FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110563
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Sturt Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- STURT FARMHOUSE
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:
- STURT FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stalbridge
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 72694 16824
Details
ST 71 NW STALBRIDGE
1/67 Sturt Farmhouse 4.10.60 II
Farmhouse, late C16 with C18 and C19 additions. Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. Tiled roof with one hipped and one gable end. C19 gabled wing projecting to right. Original range 2 storeys of 3 bays, symmetrical. It has 2-light windows flanked by 3-light stone mullioned windows with hollow chamfered mullions and surrounds. The ground floor left window with later wooden mullions is inserted in original opening and central window is a later insertion replacing the original doorway. All ground floor windows have square labels. First floor windows are similar with the central window being modern. To the right is one bay of an C18 addition. First floor has 3-light hollow chamfered stone mullioned window. Below is a door under a four-centre head in a square surround. Head and jambs are moulded. This door may have been moved from centre of original range. Over the door is a hood made from a single-stone flag. Internally there are many deep chamfered beams and one doorway has a chamfered head and chamfered shouldered jambs. Several windows have leaded-lights wired to vertical iron bars, 'RCHM, Dorset, Vol III,"HMSO, 1970, p250, no.7. Newman J and Pevsner P "The Buildings of England: Dorset", Penguin, 1972, pp396/7.
Listing NGR: ST7269416824
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 102381
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 250
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 396-397
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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