Kitt Hill House Including Front Garden Walls and Railings and Wall to Rear Garden Along Kitt Hill
KITT HILL HOUSE INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND RAILINGS AND WALL TO REAR GARDEN ALONG KITT HILL, CORNHILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110758
- Date first listed:
- 28-Nov-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Kitt Hill House Including Front Garden Walls and Railings and Wall to Rear Garden Along Kitt Hill
- Statutory Address:
- KITT HILL HOUSE INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND RAILINGS AND WALL TO REAR GARDEN ALONG KITT HILL, CORNHILL
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110758
- Date first listed:
- 28-Nov-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Kitt Hill House Including Front Garden Walls and Railings and Wall to Rear Garden Along Kitt Hill
- Statutory Address 1:
- KITT HILL HOUSE INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND RAILINGS AND WALL TO REAR GARDEN ALONG KITT HILL, CORNHILL
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:
- KITT HILL HOUSE INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND RAILINGS AND WALL TO REAR GARDEN ALONG KITT HILL, CORNHILL
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 63436 16852
Details
CORNHILL 1. 1625 (West Side) ST 6316 1/77 28.11.50. Kitt Hill House Including front garden walls and railings and wall to rear garden along Kitt Hill II GV 2. 2-storey, 6 window C18 front, modern pebble dash finish. Plaintile gabled roof; stone coping and moulded kneelers to gable ends. 4 dormers with segmental heads. Sash windows with glazing bars. Projecting porch has Tuscan columns, entablature and blocking course; panelled reveals; 6-panelled door with top 2 panels cut away and glazed. Lower 2-storey wing to left hand connects Cornhill House and Kitt Hill House. Slate gabled roof. Stone rubble. 1 sash window with glazing bars above; modern garage entry below [See Cornhill House under Acreman Street). Small front garden above road level has stone dwarf wall with ashlar wing. Late C18 to C19 railings; railings have uprights with spear-shaped finials; square standards with urn finials at intervals. Wall and railings continue round north corner and return westward up Kitt Hill. From a point opposite west end of Kitt Hill House, a high garden wall of stone rubble continues westward up Kitt Hill.
Kitt Hill House including garden walls and railings forms a group with Cornhill House, including front garden railings and wing to north east and Digby Estate Nos 121 and 122 Acreman Street.
Listing NGR: ST6343616852
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103944
- 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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