Forde Grange, the Barn With Attached Farmbuildings to North
FORDE GRANGE, THE BARN WITH ATTACHED FARMBUILDINGS TO NORTH, WHEELHOUSE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1118937
- Date first listed:
- 08-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Forde Grange, the Barn With Attached Farmbuildings to North
- Statutory Address:
- FORDE GRANGE, THE BARN WITH ATTACHED FARMBUILDINGS TO NORTH, WHEELHOUSE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1118937
- Date first listed:
- 08-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Forde Grange, the Barn With Attached Farmbuildings to North
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORDE GRANGE, THE BARN WITH ATTACHED FARMBUILDINGS TO NORTH, WHEELHOUSE LANE
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:
- FORDE GRANGE, THE BARN WITH ATTACHED FARMBUILDINGS TO NORTH, WHEELHOUSE LANE
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 36618 04612
Details
ST 30 SE THORNCOMBE WHEELHOUSE LANE 3/116 Forde Grange, The Barn with attached farmbuildings to North GV II* Barn. Early C16. Rubble walls with stone quoins, dressings and buttresses. Slate roof with stone coping to West gable. Apex as a small pyramidal base. Open to roof. Seven bays between the buttress (5) with loopholes. Porches on North side with buttresses and pitched gables. Dovecote inserted into East gable wall with square pigeon-holes, possibly C18. Interior: .Raised full and jointed crucks with chamfered tie-beams and arch-braced collars. Three sets of Through Purlins. Porch bay has raised jointed crucks and wind-braces. Wall thickens at 6 feet high to take the raised crucks. Loopholes splayed on the inside. Attached cart-shed on North-West, early C19. Rubble walls with brick dressings. Attached cow-house, later C19. Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p. 247(6).
Listing NGR: ST3661804612
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 104679
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 247
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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