Manse Cottage the Old Manse
MANSE COTTAGE, 21, LONG STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119444
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Manse Cottage the Old Manse
- Statutory Address:
- MANSE COTTAGE, 21, LONG STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119444
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Manse Cottage the Old Manse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANSE COTTAGE, 21, LONG STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE OLD MANSE, 19, LONG STREET
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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:
- MANSE COTTAGE, 21, LONG STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD MANSE, 19, LONG STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cerne Abbas
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 66542 01173
Details
ST 6601 CERNE ABBAS LONG STREET, (north side)
11/91 Nos.19 and 21 (The 26.1.56 Old Manse and Manse Cottage).(formerly listed as No 96 (Congregation House) GV II
Former Manse, occasionally for Congregational minister, now private house and attached cottage. Early C18. Brick walls in Flemish bond, with all-over burnt headers, brick pilaster end the front wall, and dentil brick cornice. White plat band. Slate mansard roof with stone slab eaves. Brick stacks at gable ends: 2 storeys and dormers. 3 windows, sashes with glazing-bars, tripartite to ground floor, (one pane, 4 pane, one pane width), with gauged brickwork and projecting dropped keys, painted white. 3 sashes to first floor (16 pane), with gauged brickwork. Front door at centre with 6 recess panels, C20. Segmental fanlight over with glazing-bars. Open pediment, C20. No. 21 , (former service end), knapped flint and banded brick walls with pilastered corner and dentil cornice. Mansard slate roof, hipped at right hand. 2 storeys. One window and outshut. 2-light casement with irregularly-spaced glazing-bars, gauged brickwork and key. First floor has a tripartite casement, with same brickwork. Late C19 outshut at right hand, brick with pentice slate roof, 2-light wood casement, and C20 plank door to left. Rear wing.
(RCHM Dorset I, p81(18))
Listing NGR: ST6654501181
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105422
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 81
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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