Little Croft the Croft
LITTLE CROFT, 17, KNIGHTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119257
- Date first listed:
- 27-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Little Croft the Croft
- Statutory Address:
- LITTLE CROFT, 17, KNIGHTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119257
- Date first listed:
- 27-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Little Croft the Croft
- Statutory Address 1:
- LITTLE CROFT, 17, KNIGHTON LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE CROFT, 15, KNIGHTON LANE
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:
- LITTLE CROFT, 17, KNIGHTON LANE
- Statutory Address:
- THE CROFT, 15, KNIGHTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Broadmayne
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 73023 86732
Details
SY 7286-7386 BROADMAYNE KNIGHTON TARE (west side) 11/3 Nos 15 and 17 (The Croft and Little Croft)
II
Two attached cottages. Early C19 and C18 (No. 17). Coursed, squared rubble walls and roughcast to No. 17. Thatch roof with gable ends. Brick stack at centre ridge, and rendered stack at right gable. Two storeys. 4 windows to No. 15, 3 windows to No. 17. No. 15 has symmetrical fenestration of one and two light cast iron casements with glazing-bars, in wood frames. Ground floor has cambered brick arches. Doors, to No. 15 plank-and-muntin studded with strap hinges, C20. No. 17, 3 windows, two light C19 wood casements with glazing-bars. Plank door to small porch. The north end has a single storey extension with hipped thatch roof. (R.C.H.M. Dorset II, p.33 (14)).
Listing NGR: SY7302386732
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105892
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 33
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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