Font Le Roi
FONT LE ROI
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1118865
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Font Le Roi
- Statutory Address:
- FONT LE ROI
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1118865
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Font Le Roi
- Statutory Address 1:
- FONT LE ROI
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:
- FONT LE ROI
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Folke
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 67206 13620
Details
ST 61 SE FOLKE
2/82 11-7-51 Font le Roi - II*
Originally a gatehouse, now a farmhouse. Gatehouse C15, south-western range c 1600 with extensive C18 alterations. Gatehouse range: coursed rubble walls with gable-ended tiled roof having stone slate verges and an end brick stack. Large gate opening on timber beams. To the left of this opening is a blocked 2-centred, chamfered stone archway with continuous jambs. Above is a single-light rectangular window with chamfered jambs. There is a similar window over the gateway. To the right the range is largely obscured by C19 additions although part of anorth C15 window is visible. C17 range: coursed rubble walls with 2 forward projecting wings. Stone-slated, hipped roofs with brick stacks at the intersections between wings and main range. Space between the wings is filled with C18 brickwork. Ground floor left has a 3-light, straight shamfered stone mullioned window with leaded-lights. Above is C20 2-light casement with horizontal glazing bars. The C18 infill has a flush panelled door with a rectangular fanlight below and a 2-light casement with leaded-lights above. Ground floor right has an 8-light window returned around ends of the wing. The outer 4-lights are blocked. Ovolo moulded mullions with leaded-lights and cornice over. Above is a similar 3-light window with returned label. Rear of the house largely remodelled in the C18. Internally the south-west room has a C17 moulded plaster ceiling restored in 1938. (RCHM). RCHM, Dorset Vol, I, p 113, no 4. Newman J and Pevsner N, The Buildings of England: Dorset. Penguin, 1972, p 207.
Listing NGR: ST6720613620
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 104805
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 113
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 207
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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