Woolcombe Hays

WOOLCOMBE HAYS

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1119276
Date first listed:
02-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:
Woolcombe Hays
Statutory Address:
WOOLCOMBE HAYS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1119276
Date first listed:
02-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:
Woolcombe Hays
Statutory Address 1:
WOOLCOMBE HAYS

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WOOLCOMBE HAYS

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

District:
Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Melbury Bubb
National Grid Reference:
ST 59926 05124

Details

MELBURY BUBB ST 50 NE WOOLCOMBE 2/82 Woolcombe Hays II Detached Farmhouse. C17, with C18 re-walling and C19 alterations. Brick walls in Flemish bond, with timber-framing at west end. Thatch roof, gabled at left hand and hipped at right hand. Rebuilt stack at left hand gable, repointed stack at right hand ridge. 1 1/2 storeys. 5 windows (irregular fenestration) 2-light cast-iron casements with glazing-bars. Wood cills. Gauged brick arches. Blocked round-headed entrance of gauged brickwork, left of centre. Main lobby-entrance, right of centre. C20 porch. Inner door, C20. Plank stable-door on rear wall. Interior: two back-to-back fireplaces, one with chalk-block jambs, one with brick jambs, both with wooden lintels over. Ceiling-beam in right end room, of convex section with a notched underside. (RCHM. Dorset I, p.159(5))

Listing NGR: ST5992605124

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
105830
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1952), 159

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Woolcombe Hays

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