The Courtyard

THE COURTYARD, 1,2,3,4,4A,5,6 AND 7

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1119868
Date first listed:
26-Jan-1956
List Entry Name:
The Courtyard
Statutory Address:
THE COURTYARD, 1,2,3,4,4A,5,6 AND 7

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1119868
Date first listed:
26-Jan-1956
Date of most recent amendment:
10-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
The Courtyard
Statutory Address 1:
THE COURTYARD, 1,2,3,4,4A,5,6 AND 7

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

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:
THE COURTYARD, 1,2,3,4,4A,5,6 AND 7

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Tincleton
National Grid Reference:
SY 78171 92159

Details

TINCLETON SY 79 SE CLYFFE HOUSE

9/163 Nos 1, 2, 3, 4, 4a, 5, 6, and 7 The Courtyard (formerly 26.1.56 listed under Clyffe House)

GV II

Former service range to Clyffe House, now converted to 8 residential units. Built 1842, architect Benjamin Ferrey: converted c1980. Brick walls with some stone dressings. Slate roofs, with coped gables. Some brick stacks with octagonal shafts (on south range), some plain stacks on north and east ranges. 3 ranges round a courtyard, attached to Clyffe House on east. Part 2-storey, part one storey and attic. Main south range has, at left end, a slightly projecting gabled wing, buttressed. This has a 4-light stone mullioned window on ground floor and a similar 3-light window in attic, lancet shaped recess above this. Right of this wing, a C20 door in original opening with fanlight. Ground floor has one 4-light and one 3-light mullioned and transomed window and one 2-light mullioned window under hoodmould. Single light window under eaves. Attic has 3 gabled dormers with mullioned windows one 3-light and two 2-light. Within the courtyard the design is less formal. Entrances to the units have brick 4-centred arched doorways with C20 doors. Most windows sashes with glazing bars. Some casements. Entrance to courtyard from north, under a single-storey block linking north and east ranges. (RCHM Monument 2 Dorset Vol III)

Listing NGR: SY7817192159

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
106352
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

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Inventory of Dorset, (1970)

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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