Bridge House
BRIDGE HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119122
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge House
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDGE HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119122
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDGE 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:
- BRIDGE 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 59673 10785
Details
YETMINSTER HIGH STREET ST 5910 (South side)
Bridge House (formerly 11/158 listed as Bridge View)
- II
Detached house. Mid-late C17. Rubble stone walls, thatched roof with coped gables, brick end stacks. 2 storeys and attic. C18 raised panel door under moulded hood on shaped brackets. Ground floor has two 2-light and two 4-light stone mullioned windows with hoodmoulds. First floor has four similar 3-light windows. Internally, right ground floor room has large open fireplac-e with moulded timber lintel. Deep chamfered ceiling beams. Arched recess by fireplace. Left ground floor room has large open fireplace with slightly cambered timber lintel and bread oven. Deep chamfered ceiling beams. On first floor, left end room has timber lintel of original fireplace - blocked. Right end room has original fireplace with cambered lintel and stone jambs. Deep chamfered ceiling beams. Some re-used smoke-blackened roof timbers indicating reconstruction of an earlier open-hall house. At the rear, 3 dormers with oak mullioned windows with remains of lead lights. C20 rear lean-to with corrugated roof. (RCHM Monument 23. Dorset. Vol. I. R Machin. "The Houses of Yetminster." University of Bristol. 1978)
Listing NGR: ST5967310785
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 106175
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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