Merry Hill Barn With Attached Shelter-shed and Yard Walls
MERRY HILL BARN WITH ATTACHED SHELTER-SHED AND YARD WALLS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118716
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Merry Hill Barn With Attached Shelter-shed and Yard Walls
- Statutory Address:
- MERRY HILL BARN WITH ATTACHED SHELTER-SHED AND YARD WALLS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118716
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Merry Hill Barn With Attached Shelter-shed and Yard Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- MERRY HILL BARN WITH ATTACHED SHELTER-SHED AND YARD WALLS
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:
- MERRY HILL BARN WITH ATTACHED SHELTER-SHED AND YARD WALLS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Abbotsbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 60282 84266
Details
SY 68 SW ABBOTSBURY MERRY HILL
6/49 Merry Hill Barn with attached Shelter-Shed and Yard Walls - II
Barn, Shelter shed and yard walls. C18, restored C20. Rubble-stone walls, with stone quoins. Thatch roof, half-hipped. Porch entrance on south side with pro- jecting jambs. No doors. Through-entrance at centre. Roof construction has original tie-beams with renewed queen-struts. Plank door on each gable end. Shelter Shed 20 metres south of barn, uses the yard wall as its back wall, and has rounded corner. Five round oak posts support, front of shed with a scarfed plate, four square posts inside, half way to back wall. Thatch roof. Attached rubble- stone walls with vertical coping-stones, join barn to shelter shed, entrance to yard, then wall curves back to form west side of yard and returns to barn, west gable.
Listing NGR: SY6028284266
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105168
- 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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