Higher Orchard
HIGHER ORCHARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119337
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Orchard
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER ORCHARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119337
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Orchard
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER ORCHARD
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:
- HIGHER ORCHARD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sandford Orcas
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 62686 19938
Details
SANDFORD ORCAS ST 61 NW HIGHER SANDFORD 5/134 Higher Orchard - II Former farmhouse, now private house. C17, with C20 alterations and extensions. Rubble-stone walls. Thatch roof with stone gable-coping at left hand end. Stone stacks at gable-ends. 1½ storeys. 4 windows, 3-light wood-framed iron casements with rectangular leaded lights. Wood lintels over, C19. Door, left of centre, panelled and glazed in the top half. North elevation, has a former dairy wing at rear, raised one storey in C20. Thatch roof. Porch, left of centre, C20 rubble-stone and gabled. Door-jambs in C17 style with depressed-arch head, C20. Plank-and-muntin door. Interior: open fireplaces in both end rooms. West room fireplace has a recess in the back wall and in the side wall. Cupboard with ribbed panel door and side-panels, all pierced, and with incised geometric ornament. HL hinges. C17. (RCHM, Dorset I, p 198(4)).
Listing NGR: ST6268619938
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105675
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 198
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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