Redford House
Redford House, Melbury Bubb, Dorchester, DT2 0NH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118652
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Redford House
- Statutory Address:
- Redford House, Melbury Bubb, Dorchester, DT2 0NH
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05604/22
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118652
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Redford House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Redford House, Melbury Bubb, Dorchester, DT2 0NH
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:
- Redford House, Melbury Bubb, Dorchester, DT2 0NH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Batcombe
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 60748 05704
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 2 September 2025 to update the Name and Address and reformat the text to current standards
ST 60 NW
1/5
BATCOMBE
MELBURY BUBB
Redford House
(Formerly listed as Redford Farmhouse)
GV
II
Detached Farmhouse. Late C17, or earlier, with refenestration, C19 and C20. Rubble-stone base and chalk-block walls with a sleeper buttress at right front, mainly brick. Thatch roof, gabled at left hand, and hipped at right hand. Brick stacks at left hand gable and ridge right of centre C18. One and a half storeys. Three windows, two- and three-light wooden casements, with wooden cills. Plank door, left of centre, C19. Brick-jambed porch, with gabled slate roof, C20.
(RCHM Dorset I, p17(5))
Listing NGR: ST6074805704
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105330
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 17
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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