Lower Farm House

LOWER FARM HOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1119186
Date first listed:
08-Oct-1986
List Entry Name:
Lower Farm House
Statutory Address:
LOWER FARM HOUSE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1119186
Date first listed:
08-Oct-1986
List Entry Name:
Lower Farm House
Statutory Address 1:
LOWER FARM HOUSE

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:
LOWER FARM HOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Beer Hackett
National Grid Reference:
ST 59881 11839

Details

BEER HACKETT ST 51 SE BEER HACKETT VILLAGE

1/3 Lower Farm House 11-7-51

- II

Detached farmhouse. Early C17. Rubble stone walls. Thatched roof, hipped at left end and with coped gable at right end. One brick stack right of door, also one plastered and one stone end stack. One storey and attic. At left end an extension of one storey and attic. 3 room end cross-passage plan. Ledged door under slate pentice on wood posts. Left of this a 2-light stone mullioned window with hoodmould. Right of-the door two 4-light similar windows. In attic, three 3-light stone mullioned windows, without hoodmoulds. Date stone on front wall, 1 and AXX. 1735 (date of repair or alteration). In the extension, one casement,on ground floor - one casement with lead lights in attic. Internally, hall has deep chamfered intersecting ceiling beams, and large open fireplace with timber lintel. Parlour has chamfered ceiling beam and moulded 4-centred arched stone fireplace. RCHM Monument 4. (Dorset. Vol.I)

Listing NGR: ST5988111839

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Legacy System number:
106021
Legacy System:
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Sources

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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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