Moonfleet
MOONFLEET, CONIGAR KNAP
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118606
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Moonfleet
- Statutory Address:
- MOONFLEET, CONIGAR KNAP
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118606
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Moonfleet
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOONFLEET, CONIGAR KNAP
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:
- MOONFLEET, CONIGAR KNAP
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hilton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 76672 03943
Details
HILTON ST70SE CONIGAR KNAP (South side)
2/31 Moonfleet (formerly listed as "Lower Farm 16-2-72 House")
GV II
Detached house. Formerly a farmhouse with attached cottage and barn. C16 origin; house remodelled in C17, cottage and barn added in C18 - all considerably restored c1980. Rubble stone and flint walls, with some brick repairs; incorporating fragments of re-used dressed medieval stone - possibly from Milton Abbey, and part plastered. Hipped thatched roof. One stone and one brick stack, on ridge. Z-shaped plan. One storey and attic. Original house, the central section, at right angles to road, originally a long-house of open - hall form. This has oak ledged door in moulded stone surround inscribed "R.G.1695". Buttress left of this. Ground floor has 3 casement windows with cast iron glazing and one with timber glazing bars. Attic has four ½-dormers with C20 casements with glazing bars. Front range - parallel to road, consists of the added C18 cottage (now part of house) part rebuilt c1980. Rubble stone walls, part plastered, with brick buttress. C20 door and windows. Lean-to extension at left end. Rear range, the former barn, now partly converted to residential accommodation. In original house, main ground floor room has large open fireplace with stone jambs, timber lintel and bread oven. Ceiling of intersecting moulded ceiling beams - inserted in open hall in C17. Rear room also has large open fireplace with timber lintel and bread oven. RCHM Monument 13. (Dorset. Vol.III).
Listing NGR: ST7667203943
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103443
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970)
Royal Commission on Historic Monuments; Inventory of Dorset Vol 4, (1972)
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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