Digby Estate
DIGBY ESTATE, 251-255, WESTBURY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110639
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Digby Estate
- Statutory Address:
- DIGBY ESTATE, 251-255, WESTBURY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110639
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Digby Estate
- Statutory Address 1:
- DIGBY ESTATE, 251-255, WESTBURY
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:
- DIGBY ESTATE, 251-255, WESTBURY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sherborne
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 63807 16380
Details
WESTBURY 1. 1625 (East Side) Digby Estate Nos 251 to 255 (consec) ST 6316 1/240 II GV 2. C18 or earlier. Five 2 storey stone rubble cottage fronts, the centre three (until summer 1971) with thatched roof. Grade II for group value. The following notes relate to appearance prior to July 1971. No 255 with plaintile roof. A 2-light window with small panes and leaded glazing on first floor; a modern 3-light, 3-tier window with lintel below; to left hand below, 6-flush-panelled door with frame and lintel. Nos 254 and 253 formerly with same height to frontage and with thatched roof; one 2-light leafed window each above; below, No 254 has Georgian shop window 4 panes deep and 6 panes wide to left hand with ledged door to right hand; in No 253, sash window and ledged door on ground floor. No 252 with slightly higher frontage; also, formerly with thatched roof. Above, 3-light modern casement to left hand and a 3-light leaded window to right hand; on ground floor, sash window with lintel to left hand and right hand ends and ledged door in middle. No 251 of 2 storeys and attic and with much higher frontage. 1 dormer. On first floor, a 2-light segmental headed window with small panes; segmental headed sash window with glazing bars on ground floor and to left of it, 6-flush-panelled door in segmental headed doorway. Nos 251 to 255 are in an important position in relation to the Hospital of Saintd John the Baptist and Evangelist and to the entrance to Abbey Close.
Digby Estate Nos 251 to 255 (consec), Twyford, The Sherborne Do-it-Yourself Centre and Wessex Club, Digby Estate No 247, Sherborne Gallery, Westbury Studio, Dolphin House, Estcourt and Brookfield form a group.
Listing NGR: ST6381016365
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 104157
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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