Wyke House
WYKE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1119382
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Wyke House
- Statutory Address:
- WYKE HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1119382
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Wyke House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WYKE 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.
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:
- WYKE HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Castleton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 60100 14481
Details
CASTLETON WYKE ST 61 SW Wyke House 9/39 11.7.51 GV II*
Farmhouse with attached walls. Dated 1650 with late C17 addition on West in spandrels of front door. Dressed stone walls, rendered. Clay-tile roof with stone-slate eaves. Stone gable-copings and scrolled kneelers. C20 brick stacks at gable ends. Front elevation: two storeys with attics. 7 windows, hollow-chamfered stone mullions, with iron casements and fixed lead lights, three lights to the ground floor, 4 lights at right hand end. First floor windows of: 3, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 3 lights. Continuous string over ground floor windows, and first floor windows. Front doorway, left of centre, has moulded jambs with depressed arch in a square head. Label drops down from the string-course. C17. Plank-and-muntin door studded with long strap-hinges and weatherboard. Blocked doorway, with renewed head, right of straight joint. South elevation has windows of 3 lights, except for staircase window at half-level right of centre, of 4 lights. Doorway design, cf. front door though excluding date. Plank-and-muntin door with strap-hinges. Interior: late C17 addition has some exposed ceiling-beams. Outbuilding on the west end, rubble-stone walls, with stone-slate and clay-tile roof. C20 brick stack on gable end. 3-light iron casement with lead lights, wood lintel over. Two attached walls run at right-angles from front of house, each for 25 metres. Rubble-stone walls, each with a doorway half-way along with stone chamfered jambs and depressed-arch head. Plank doors studded. (RCHM Dorset I, p.70 (6))
Listing NGR: ST6010014481
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105579
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 70
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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