Sydling Court
SYDLING COURT, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1119425
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Sydling Court
- Statutory Address:
- SYDLING COURT, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1119425
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Sydling Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- SYDLING COURT, CHURCH LANE
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:
- SYDLING COURT, CHURCH LANE
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 63010 99326
Details
SY 6399 SYDLING ST NICHOLAS. CHURCH LANE, (north side)
12/154 Sydling Court 26.1.56 GV II*
Court House in grounds. Slight C16 remains (clunch); altered and enlarged late C18 by Sir John Smith and Elizabeth (Curtis). Early C19, east front completely altered and centre part added in Gothic Revival style, and other windows altered to match. Further restoration in 1864-8. Brick and clunch walls, stuccoed. Slate and stone slate roofs, with two gables at north and south of east front. Stone stacks on the ridges of the north and south wings. 2½ storeys. East front, 6 windows (first floor), irregular fenestration. Gable ends described first, then centre part and porch. Diagonal buttressing, with set-offs at all angles. String-course between ground and first floors carried through. North gable-end: French window with glazing- bars and moulded cornice, 12-pane sash over with separate returned label. South gable-end, twinned sashes with glazing- bars, single returned label over. Single sash, with label to first floor. Oculus in gable. The south gable-end is set back (west) from rest of front. Central remodelling, including porch has stone pinnacles to the angles, and a crenellated parapet. Ground floor has French window with glazing-bars, and a sash either side. Single returned label over. First floor has 3 12-pane sashes, with separate returned labels over. Porch immediately right of this, two-storey, front doorway has moulded stone jambs, and 4-centred head, 2-leaf front door, C19. Sash- window over, with returned label. Shield-of-arms over this, Smith with a scutcheon of Curtis. The north front has towards the west end a 3-sided bay of 2 storeys with canted sides and a dentil eaves-cornice. In the south front of the north wing is a stone cut with the initials and date S.I.E 1771.
(RCHM Dorset I, p233(6))
Listing NGR: SY6301099326
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105479
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 233
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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