The Malthouse 5 Metres East of the Abbey House and Attached Walling
THE MALTHOUSE 5 METRES EAST OF THE ABBEY HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLING, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1118747
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- The Malthouse 5 Metres East of the Abbey House and Attached Walling
- Statutory Address:
- THE MALTHOUSE 5 METRES EAST OF THE ABBEY HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLING, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1118747
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Malthouse 5 Metres East of the Abbey House and Attached Walling
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MALTHOUSE 5 METRES EAST OF THE ABBEY HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLING, CHURCH STREET
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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:
- THE MALTHOUSE 5 METRES EAST OF THE ABBEY HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLING, 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 57835 85158
Details
SY 5785 ABBOTSBURY CHURCH STREET, EAST SIDE
10/17 The Malthouse 5 metres east of The Abbey House and 26.1.56 attached walling (formerly listed as shed and walling GV to east)
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Former abbey building, possibly infirmary, traditionally called The Malthouse, c.1400, with c.C18 west gable wall. Building originally extended further west. Ashlar and rubble-stone walls. Buttress with 2 set-offs at south west corner. Clay Roman tile roof. No stacks, 2 storeys, originally, though now only ceiled at west end, 4 windows, irregular fenestration. C14 openings with later wooden framing, skewed loop-light at centre. 2-centred archway immediately west of south wall, of two moulded orders dying into the jambs. East part of this wall was formerly covered by the south wing and has a large opening with a square head of 3 chamfered orders, blocked. West of this is a blocked pedestrian doorway with pointed-segmental head. The east wall has 2 square-headed lights to the lower floor. Upper floor has a single late C14 window of two trefoiled lights, cross- transomed, rebated internally for shutters, and with a chamfered reve-arch. Interior: beam shelf on north and south walls at upper floor level. Vertical chases in the south wall probably for the wall-parts of the original roof. Attached west wall of south wing, running south for 60 metres and c.3.5 metres high. Openings north to south: single square-headed light; window of two trefoiled lights in a square head; doorway with a segmental-pointed head; three ranges of two single-light windows, set one above another, all these have square heads, except the southern on the ground floor, which has a trefoiled head. (RCHM, Dorset I, p.6 (3).)
Listing NGR: SY5783785157
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105136
- 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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