Abbey House
ABBEY HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118748
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey House
- Statutory Address:
- ABBEY HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118748
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBEY HOUSE, 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:
- ABBEY HOUSE, 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 57807 85153
Details
SY 5785 ABBOTSBURY CHURCH STREET, EAST SIDE
10/19 Abbey House, (formerly listed 26.1.56 as Abbey Farmhouse)
GV II
Detached House, former farmhouse and previously part of monastic buildings east of cloister. C14 material reused, C17 and C19 refashioning. Rubble-stone and dressed stone walls. Slate roof with stone gable-copings and scroll-kneeler at left hand end and half-hip at right hand end. Stone stack with castellated parapet at left hand gable. Brick stack right of centre, .C18. Two storeys and dormers. 4 windows (first-floor). Ground floor openings: square C19 2-light bay window with a hipped slate roof; 3-light cast-iron casement with a wooden lintel over; porch with a flush panel wooden door and hipped slate roof; 3-light bay window with a hipped slate roof; small rectangular window, medieval; 3-light C19. Wooden casement; single light wooden casement. First Floor:two 3-light C19 cast- iron casements with wooden cills and two 3-light wooden casements. 3 C20 dormers, 2-light casements. North ranges, C17, with stone gable coping and apex-block. 2-light wooden casements on west side. Fragments of C12 sculpture from the abbey built in. Adjoining wing abuts and has a stone slab roof, very tall gable-end chimney has a castellated parapet and set-offs. Interior: 2 back-to-back fire- places with dressed stone jambs and saw-cut wooden lintels and wooden lintel with large chamfer and stepped stops.
Listing NGR: SY5781285154
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105138
- 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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