Agriculture House
AGRICULTURE HOUSE, 59-61, HIGH WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119070
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Agriculture House
- Statutory Address:
- AGRICULTURE HOUSE, 59-61, HIGH WEST STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/08368/25
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119070
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Agriculture House
- Statutory Address 1:
- AGRICULTURE HOUSE, 59-61, HIGH WEST 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:
- AGRICULTURE HOUSE, 59-61, HIGH WEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dorchester
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 69139 90738
Details
HIGH WEST STREET 1. 5191 (North Side) Nos 59 to 61 (consec) (Agriculture House) SY 6990 7/243 II GV 2. l883. Architect. G R Crickmay of Weymouth. Brown brick, all details in ashlar. 3 storeys. Moulded eaves cornice. Balcony with urns at either end. 8 ranges of sashes. Giant pilasters at angles, and also flanking bays 3 and 6, which break forward slightly. Ground floor of bays 3,4,5, and 6 is faced with rusticated ashlar. Above these bays pilasters carry a full entablature, the cornice dentilled, and pediments above bays 3 and 6. All windows have shouldered architraves with keystones, those on 2nd floor of bays 3 and 6 with fishscale ornament and moulded cornices on consoles. Bays 1, 6 and 7 of ground floor and 3 and 6 of 1st floor have tripartite windows similar to rest, but with moulded cornices, and acroteria over. Bay 3 has double doors with elaborate moulded panelling flanked by ornamental pilasters with consoles taking pediment - shell motif in tympanum and swag on frieze. Bay 8 has a 6 panel door with fanlight. Nos 48 to 65A (consec)including the Shire Hall, Holy Trinity Church, the Museum, St. Peter's Church and monument to William Barnes in churchyard immediately south of West Tower form a group.
Listing NGR: SY6913990738
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 104383
- 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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