Nowell House
NOWELL HOUSE, ACREMAN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110804
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Nowell House
- Statutory Address:
- NOWELL HOUSE, ACREMAN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110804
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Nowell House
- Statutory Address 1:
- NOWELL HOUSE, ACREMAN 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:
- NOWELL HOUSE, ACREMAN STREET
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 63699 16412
Details
ACREMAN STREET 1. 1625 (North-East Side) Nowell House ST 6316 1/31 II GV 2. C18 with alterations and modern pebble-dash finish. 2 storey 4 window front; southern 3 bays set slightly back. Plaintile roof formerly with stone tiles at eaves on north end. Two hipped dormers. Sash windows, mostly later frames without glazing bars. Stone door surround has moulded architrave and pediment on voluted console brackets. Deep keystone connects door-head to underside of pediment. 6-panelled door with rectangular fanlight. Panelled reveals. Stone plaque under northernmost first floor window bears following inscription: "'This house in which he spent his last years was given to Sherborne School by William James Bensly. A Shirburnian well loved as boy and master. 1888- 1943".
Pineska, Salem, No 7, G F S Room, All Hallows, Askwith House, Nowell House, Digby Estate Nos 207, 208 and 209 and two outbuildings to South of Digby Estate No 209 form a group with west return of Premises occupied by Mr Hunt, Trendle Street.
Listing NGR: ST6369916412
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103857
- 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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