Pyt House and Attached Front Walls
PYT HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, POUND ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119343
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Pyt House and Attached Front Walls
- Statutory Address:
- PYT HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, POUND ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119343
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Pyt House and Attached Front Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- PYT HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, POUND ROAD
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:
- PYT HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, POUND ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Thornford
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 60458 13100
Details
THORNFORD ST 6013-6113 POUND ROAD (east side) 16/153 Pyt House and attached front walls 11.7.51 GV II
Detached house. Late C17. Dressed stone walls, with Ham stone dressings and strings, and ashlar quoins, large thatch roof with gable ends and stone gable-copings. Brick stacks at gable-ends, rebuilt C19. Two storeys and attics. 4 windows, hollow-chamfered stone mullions of 4, 2, 2, 4 lights to ground floor, and 3, 2, 2, 3 lights to first floor. Iron casements with horizontal glazing-bars. Continuous label to ground floor, stepped up over doorway. 3 separate labels, central combining two, over the first floor windows. Front doorway at centre with straight-chamfered jambs and depressed-arch head. Plank door with two lights. Interior: 3 units, with large central hall. North room has a stone fireplace with straight-chamfered jambs and cambered head, late C17. Mid-chamfered ceiling-beams with run-out stops. First floor, has some plank-and-muntin partitioning from landing south, C17. Flagstone floor in Hall. Attached brick sleeper-walls to front garden, stone-coped with C19 iron railings and gateway, brick return walls to house also stone-coped. (RCHM, Dorset I, p 251(12)).
Listing NGR: ST6045813100
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105694
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 251
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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