Manor Farm House Including Wall Enclosing Farmyard

MANOR FARM HOUSE INCLUDING WALL ENCLOSING FARMYARD, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1119120
Date first listed:
11-Jul-1951
List Entry Name:
Manor Farm House Including Wall Enclosing Farmyard
Statutory Address:
MANOR FARM HOUSE INCLUDING WALL ENCLOSING FARMYARD, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1119120
Date first listed:
11-Jul-1951
List Entry Name:
Manor Farm House Including Wall Enclosing Farmyard
Statutory Address 1:
MANOR FARM HOUSE INCLUDING WALL ENCLOSING FARMYARD, 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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
MANOR FARM HOUSE INCLUDING WALL ENCLOSING FARMYARD, 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 59542 10787

Details

YETMINSTER ST 5910 HIGH STREET (North side)

11/153 Manor Farm House, including wall 11.7.51 enclosing farmyard.

GV II

Farmhouse. Probably mid-C17 origin, enlarged in late C17 or C18. Rubble stone walls - front wall part pebble-dashed, ashlar quoins. Slate roof with coped gables, and finial to original wing. One brick stack near top of gable, one at opposite gable, one at end of later wing. T-shaped plan, - original range of 2 storeys and attic. In end gable wall, ground and first floors each have one 4-light stone mullioned window with hoodmould. Similar, blocked, 3-light window in attic. Later range on right of 2 storeys. Ground floor has one 4-light and two 2-light stone mullioned windows with hoodmoulds. First floor has 3 similar 3-light windows without hoodmoulds. Lean-to addition at rear of this wing. Small roughcast single-storey addition at right end, contains present entrance. Internally, right end ground floor room in later wing has 4-centred arched stone fireplace. At junction of the two wings a C17 four-centred arched doorway. In original range, north room (at rear) has one stop-chamfered ceiling beam. Central dairy, with plank and muntin partitions and some early fittings. South room - adjoining road, has stop-chamfered ceiling beams and 4-centred arched stone fireplace across corner. Right-of the house, rubble stone wall enclosing farmyard, with cock and hen coping. Rough ashlar gatepiers with weathered caps. (RCHM Monument 21 Dorset. Vol.I R Machin. "The Houses of Yetminster". University of Bristol 1978)

Listing NGR: ST5954210787

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Legacy System number:
106170
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1952)
Machin, R, The Houses of Yetminster, (1978)

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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