Abbott's Walk
ABBOTT'S WALK, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1118746
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Abbott's Walk
- Statutory Address:
- ABBOTT'S WALK, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1118746
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Abbott's Walk
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBOTT'S WALK, CHURCH 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:
- ABBOTT'S WALK, CHURCH STREET
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 57804 85177
Details
SY 5785 ABBOTSBURY CHURCH STREET, EAST SIDE
10/16 Abbott's Walk, (formerly listed 26.1.56 as Estate Workshop) GV II*
Monastic Building, (perhaps Abbot's Lodging), now private residence. C14 and C17 with intrusive C19 cart-shed arches. Coursed rubble-stone walls with stone quoins. Slate roofs throughout the stone gable-copings and scroll kneelers. Brick stacks at-far west gable (C19 extension), C20 stack on rear wall. C19 range at left hand, 2 storeys. 3 windows, 3-light cast-iron casements with wooden cills, C20 2-light wooden casement with lead lights. Segmental stone arches. C20 stone porch with pitched slate roof and C20 door. Main range: 2 cart-shed entrances with segmental stone heads, now blocked and provided with C20 bow-windows. C14 jambs with straight head of a doorway, blocking low down, and concrete 2-light mullion over. C17 3-light stone mullion window with straight-chamfered jambs- and a transom. Fixed wooden windows. North-east corner of the building projects as an oratory, East wall has window of 2 tiers of 4-light mullions each with a trefoil-cusped head, C14. 3-light stone mullion window over, straight-chamfered, C17. North elevation: blocked C14 doorway with 4-centred head. 2-light C14 window with trefoil-cusping in a square head. Large C14 window. 2-light and transomed with trefoiled ogee heads and a sexfoil-in-circle over. Keeled label over. External stairway with depressed-arch head under,up to landing. C19 altered C20. Interior features: east wall, south of oratory, C14 head-corbel, hair survives, half of face missing. Oratory area: C14 piscina in south wall with trefoil ogee head, drain and credence shelf over. 2 plain corbels at springing height of the east window. (RCHM, Dorset I, p.6(3).)
Listing NGR: SY5780885177
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105135
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 6
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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