Golden House and Attached Outbuilding
GOLDEN HOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118921
- Date first listed:
- 08-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Golden House and Attached Outbuilding
- Statutory Address:
- GOLDEN HOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118921
- Date first listed:
- 08-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Golden House and Attached Outbuilding
- Statutory Address 1:
- GOLDEN HOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING, HIGH 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:
- GOLDEN HOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Thorncombe
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 37520 03188
Details
ST 3702 THORNCOMBE HIGH STREET, SOUTH SIDE Golden House and attached 7/113 Outbuilding GV II House. C17 with C19 fenestration and dated T.S. 1855 on 2 window keystones. Chert and stone rubble walls with large stone quoins. Concrete tile roof with gable-ends and hipped corner, with 4 brick stacks at ridge and gable-ends. L-shaped plan, with door on North-East side. Two storeys with the 4-window range at right angles to street. Ground floor windows: C20 metal frames. First-floor: C19 cast-iron casements. Interior: Deep-chamfered ceiling beam with run-out stops. Large open fireplace at rear with chamfered lintel. Attached out-building along street; rubble walls, brick quoins, slate roof. Golden House forms an important group-feature in the High Street. Its curving street-frontage is notable. Sources R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p. 248(23).
Listing NGR: ST3752003188
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 104635
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 248
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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