Glebe Cottage and Attached Walls
GLEBE COTTAGE AND ATTACHED WALLS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1119231
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Glebe Cottage and Attached Walls
- Statutory Address:
- GLEBE COTTAGE AND ATTACHED WALLS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1119231
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Glebe Cottage and Attached Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- GLEBE COTTAGE AND ATTACHED WALLS
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:
- GLEBE COTTAGE AND ATTACHED WALLS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Osmington
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 74731 81764
Details
SY 78 SW OSMINGTON RINGSTEAD
9/33 Glebe Cottage and attached walls 26.1.56 - II*
Former Ringstead Old Church, converted to cottage. C13 fabric with C18 conversion to domestic use, and C20 re-roofing, window and door alterations. Rubblestone walls. Clay tile roofs with gable ends. Brick stack at right hand gable. 1½ storeys. 2 windows, 2 light wood casements with glazing-bars. Wood cills. 3 light casement in C20 extension at west end. Half dormers are gabled 2 light casements. Doors, plank door, right of centre to C20 rubblestone porch. C20 door, left of centre, with stone seat externally beside entrance. The chancel has a wide plinth, the line of the original east gable is visible below the present roof line. There was no east window. Interior: the pointed chancel arch, visible upstairs is of two chamfered orders. It is largely blocked but survives to its full height. Nothing remains of the original nave. C18 alterations, floor inserted in the chancel, supported by a roughly chamfered ceiling beam. Fireplace at the east end has a chamfered bressummer and a bread oven at the north side, brick jambs and rear of fireplace. log- leg wooden staircase with door in beside the fireplace. Attached walls of former churchyard, coursed rubblestone walls, forming a loose rectangle and running 30 metres north to south, and 17 metres east to west. (R.C.H.M. Dorset II, p. 180 (2)).
Listing NGR: SY7473181764
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105922
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 180
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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