The Dairy House

THE DAIRY HOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1119307
Date first listed:
11-Jul-1951
List Entry Name:
The Dairy House
Statutory Address:
THE DAIRY HOUSE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1119307
Date first listed:
11-Jul-1951
List Entry Name:
The Dairy House
Statutory Address 1:
THE DAIRY 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE DAIRY HOUSE

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

District:
Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Trent
National Grid Reference:
ST 59016 18510

Details

TRENT ST 5818-5918 - 18/162 The Dairy House 11.7.51

GV II Former farmhouse, now private residence. C16, with rebuilding of the south wall in C17. Rubble-stone and dressed stone walls, with a 2-stage buttress at former east end of the building. Clay-tile roofs. Stone stacks with moulded cornices at the gable ends. Two storeys and attics. 3 windows, 3-light hollow-chamfered mullion windows, with a continuous string carried up and over each window and doorway. C20 metal casements with lead lights. The west gable wall has a C16 window of 4 lights with moulded reveals, and a label stopped. First floor C16 window of two cinquefoiled lights with tracery in a square head. Label and returned stops. Front doorway at centre of south wall has a depressed-arch head, and plank door, glazed of C17. Small staircase wing on the north side. Interior: two late C16 fireplaces, one with a square head and one with a four centred head. C16 doorway with moulded jambs and segmental head. (RCHM, Dorset I, p 258(7)).

Listing NGR: ST5901618510

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105703
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 258

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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