Hamlet House, Including Attached Maltings and Outbuildings
HAMLET HOUSE, INCLUDING ATTACHED MALTINGS AND OUTBUILDINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1119153
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Hamlet House, Including Attached Maltings and Outbuildings
- Statutory Address:
- HAMLET HOUSE, INCLUDING ATTACHED MALTINGS AND OUTBUILDINGS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1119153
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Hamlet House, Including Attached Maltings and Outbuildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- HAMLET HOUSE, INCLUDING ATTACHED MALTINGS AND OUTBUILDINGS
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:
- HAMLET HOUSE, INCLUDING ATTACHED MALTINGS AND OUTBUILDINGS
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 60005 08686
Details
YETMINSTER
ST 50 NE, ST 60 NW HAMLET
ST 6008
6/133 Hamlet house,
including attached
11.7.51 Maltings and
outbuildings
GV II*
House, with attached maltings and outbuildings. House C17, enlarged in C18,
maltings and outbuildings early Cl9. House has rubble stone walls, slate
roof with stone eaves courses and coped gables, plastered end stacks. 2
storeys. Early C19 ashlar stone porch with coped gable and 4-centred arched
doorway with C20 glazed door. Inner door has 4-centred arch in square frame
and C18 panelled door. Datestone over - T and XXK 1688. Ground floor has
3 stone-mullioned windows with hoodmoulds and casements with horizontal
glazing bars. First floor has 4 similar windows without hoodmoulds. Added
rear range, C18, forming double-pile plan with parallel ridges. Internally,
Parlour, at left end, has deep chamfered ceiling beams with added C18
mouldings. Hall, in centre (now one room with Parlour) has moulded intersecting
beams. Kitchen, at right end, has original rear door, in 4-centred arch. C18
cut string stair with spandril brackets, turned balusters and wreathed handrail.
Maltings, attached to house on right, has date stone 1816. This has rubble
stone walls and thatched roof. 3 storeys. On ground floor, flush door at
left end, 2 casements with horizontal glazing bars and one shuttered window.
On first floor, a pair of loft doors, one casement with horizontal glazing
bars and 2 shuttered windows. On second floor, 3 casements, one with lead
lights, one with centre-bar, and one shuttered. Interior survives largely
intact. Original plastered floor, kiln, steeping vat and grain hoppers.
Attached to maltings at rear, a single-storey dairy, probably early C19.
Rubble stone walls and slate roof. Ledged door and one casement with glazing
bars. Attached to this at rear a 2-storeyed outbuilding, of rubble stone with
slate roof. Ledged door. 2 casements on each floor, those on first floor
With cast iron glazing. Stone steps to first floor on end gable wall. A good
group. (RCHM Monument 33 Dorset. Vol. I)
Listing NGR: ST6000508686
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 106150
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1952)
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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