Devon House
DEVON HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119118
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Devon House
- Statutory Address:
- DEVON HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119118
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Devon House
- Statutory Address 1:
- DEVON HOUSE, 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:
- DEVON HOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Yetminster
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 59467 10839
Details
YETMINSTER ST 5910 HIGH STREET (North side)
11/147 Devon House
GV II
House at right end of terrace. Early-mid C18. Rubble stone walls, slate roof with coped gables, brick end stacks. 2 storeys. L-shaped plan, with projecting rear wing at left end. Flat band at first floor level. 6-panel moulded panel door, in moulded stone surround, under shallow segmental hood on brackets with ball pendants. Ground floor has two 4-light stone mullion windows with moulded stone surrounds - chamfered mullions with flat fillet. Casements with centre horizontal bar. First floor has two 3-light and one 2-light similar windows. Later, rear range, creating a double-pile plan, with parallel roofs. Rear wing, originally outbuilding, includes a stable and part-demolished barn. Internally, left ground floor room has large open fireplace with curved-timber lintel. Interior much altered, but original roof structure survives with coupled common rafters - no ridge piece. Interesting transitional design - from sub-medieval to classical style.
Listing NGR: ST5946710839
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 106164
- 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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