Beech House
BEECH HOUSE, BRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110569
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Beech House
- Statutory Address:
- BEECH HOUSE, BRIDGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110569
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Beech House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BEECH HOUSE, BRIDGE 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.
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:
- BEECH HOUSE, BRIDGE STREET
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 78588 13822
Details
ST 7813 STURMINSTER NEWTON BRIDGE STREET (EAST SIDE)
9/114 Beech House
4.10.60 II
House Cl7 with C18, C19 and C20 additions and modifications. Squared and coursed rubble walls with ashlar dressings. Slate roof with gable ends and rendered stone stacks. T-plan with C18 extension to the right which has been connected in turn to a former ancillary building. C19 addition to rear left. Projecting 2 storey and attic porch to front. 2 storeys with attic and cellars. Main range of 4 bays. All main windows are stone mullioned with chamfered jambs and mullions having casements with no glazing bars and square moulded stone labels The porch has 2-light square headed casements with no glazing bars. 3 dormers in attic with wooden casements. One central and 2 end stacks. To the right the former ancillary building presents a gable to the front and has C20 stone mullioned windows to match those of the original range. The connecting range has small wooden casements under segmental arches. Internally there are some exposed chamfered ceiling beams and there are some c 1800 doors and fittings. "RCHM, Dorset, Vol III", HMSO, 1970, p 282, no 43.
Listing NGR: ST7858813822
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 102396
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 282
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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