26, FORE STREET
26, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119295
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- 26, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 26, FORE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119295
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- 26, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 26, FORE STREET
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:
- 26, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Evershot
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 57375 04515
Details
EVERSHOT ST 5704 FORE STREET (North side) 7/21 No. 26 11.11.66 GV II Large attached house, formerly two. Early C18, or late C17, with C16 roof construction. Dressed stone walls. Thatch roof, with gable ends and stone gable-copings. Brick stacks, C20 at left hand gable, C20 at right hand ridge, C18 at right gable end. Two storeys and dormers. 5 windows, ground floor: window-door-window-door-window. Square-section stone mullions, beaded, 3-light to ground floor; 2-light, with 3-light in the end bays to first floor, C18. Iron casements with lead lights, C18 or C19. Front doorways, in bays 2 and 4, with stone architraves, pulvinated friezes and large moulded cornices. Plank- and-muntin door with lead lights, C20 (left). Plank door (stable-type), C20. Interior: flagstone floors. Fireplace in left hand end wall has stone jambs, straight-chamfered, with stepped stops, cambered wood lintel re-set. Elliptical arch to side of fireplace. First floor centre front room has plastered ceiling with 4 raised plasterwork rosettes (one, the fifth, missing). Panelled C18, window seats. Roof-construction: 3 bays of smoke-blackened principals with 2 sets of through purlins and wind-bracing. Mortices for collars, collars gone. Diagonal ridge-piece, C16. Rear range has C17 construction with butted through- purlins.
Listing NGR: ST5737504515
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105768
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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