17, ABBEY STREET

17, ABBEY STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1119468
Date first listed:
26-Jan-1956
List Entry Name:
17, ABBEY STREET
Statutory Address:
17, ABBEY STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1119468
Date first listed:
26-Jan-1956
Date of most recent amendment:
19-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:
17, ABBEY STREET
Statutory Address 1:
17, ABBEY 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
17, ABBEY 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 66544 01294

Details

ST 6601 CERNE ABBAS ABBEY STREET, (west side)

11/54 No. 17 (formerly listed as 26.1.56 Abbey Farm Cottage) GV II

House, attached to No. 15. Early C18. Flint brick and rubble walls, plastered and painted pink. Slate roof, mansard with gable end at left hand, and hipped at right hand. Stone slates on north hip. Two storeys and dormers. 3 windows. 12 pane sashes with glazing-bars and flush frames, coupled sashes right of doorway. Venetian window over the doorway, with its tympanum filled in and barred to resemble a fanlight. Front door, left of centre, round-headed with fluted pilasters supporting an open pediment. Fielded-panel door.

(RCHM Dorset I, p81(7))

Listing NGR: ST6654401294

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Legacy System number:
105379
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Sources

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Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 81

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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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