Water House Farmhouse
WATER HOUSE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118979
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Water House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WATER HOUSE FARMHOUSE
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- Date:
- 2001-10-09
- Reference:
- IOE01/05514/06
- Rights:
- © Mr Harold T. F. Jenkins. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118979
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Water House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATER HOUSE FARMHOUSE
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:
- WATER HOUSE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bettiscombe
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 39465 99851
Details
SY 39 NE BETTISCOMBE 5/13 Water House Farmhouse 4.12.51 II Farmhouse. C16 and later. Rubble and freestone walls with stone quoins. Thatch roof, hipped at right-hand end. Three C20 brick stacks, at left- hand gable; left of front door alignment; and towards right hand end. Two storeys, c.6 window range, at left hand two stone mullion windows of four lights with ovolo-moulds, with label over ground floor window. Remainder, wooden casements with leaded lights, wooden cills and lintels. Front door, left of centre, C20, with window in top half. Door at right hand, into former cheese-room, plank with strap-hinges. Interior: Deep- chamfered ceiling-beams with filleted stops. Muntins with jowelled heads, being visible remains of a plank-and-muntin partition. Large open fireplace in former hall. Door-case dog-leg stair at right hand side of fireplace. Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p. 29(4).
Listing NGR: SY3946599851
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 104570
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 29
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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