Gorwell Farmhouse
GORWELL FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118674
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Gorwell Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- GORWELL FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118674
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Gorwell Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- GORWELL FARMHOUSE
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:
- GORWELL FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Long Bredy and Kingston Russell
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 57464 87166
Details
SY 58 NE LONG BREDY GORWELL
3/155 Gorwell Farmhouse 26.1.56 - II
Detached Farmhouse. Mid C19, with re-used C17 material. Rubble-stone walls with dressed stone quoins. C19 slate roof with boxed eaves and gable-ends. Shallow pitch. Projecting stack and rendered chimney on south gable-end, and at north gable. Rendered stack on east front gable. 2 storeys. 4 windows and one window on return wing at north end. Sashes with stone cills and concreted architraves. Front gable at north end has a blocked 2-light stone mullion window with hollow chamfers and a returned label over. 2-light and 3-light stone mullions with lead lights on north wall. Rear walls have 2- and 3-light cast-iron casements with segmental brick arches over. 2-storey porch on front elevation has a doorway with moulded jambs and head. Straight-chamfered stops have carved vases. Inner door with same jambs and head, both C17. (RCHM Dorset I, p.41 (6)).
Listing NGR: SY5746487166
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105275
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 41
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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