East House
EAST HOUSE, 5, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1119396
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- East House
- Statutory Address:
- EAST HOUSE, 5, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1119396
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- East House
- Statutory Address 1:
- EAST HOUSE, 5, HIGH 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:
- EAST HOUSE, 5, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sydling St. Nicholas
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 63143 99425
Details
SY 6399 SYDLING ST NICHOLAS HIGH STREET , (west 26.1.56 side)
12/182 No. 5 (East House)
GV II*
Detached House. Mid-late C18. Red brick walls in Flemish bond, with a plastered plat-band, painted white, brick dentil cornice. Hipped clay-tile roof with stone slate eaves. Large central brick chimney stack. Double-depth and double-fronted house. East front, symmetrical. 2 storeys with basements and attics. 3 windows, twinned sashes with glazing-bars, gauged brick arches with projecting keystones, painted white, (original design). Over the doorway is a Venetian window, also with gauged brick- work and keystone, and fluted pilasters to the framing. The basement windows are of Cl7 type with stone mullions. There are 3 C20 dormers, of 3, 2, 3 lights with glazing-bar., The central front doorway, has side pilasters with bossed imposts, triglyph frieze and cornice. 6 fielded-panel door, and fanlight over with radiating glazing-bars. The north front has dummy windows, and the south is partly concealed by a later addition. (RCHM Dorset I, p234(8))
Listing NGR: SY6314399425
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105508
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 234
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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