Wilksworth Farmhouse
WILKSWORTH FARMHOUSE, CRANBORNE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1120076
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Wilksworth Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WILKSWORTH FARMHOUSE, CRANBORNE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1120076
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Wilksworth Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WILKSWORTH FARMHOUSE, CRANBORNE ROAD
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:
- WILKSWORTH FARMHOUSE, CRANBORNE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Holt
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 00736 01896
Details
COLEHILL SU 00 SW CRANBORNE ROAD 5/2 Wilksworth Farmhouse 18.3.55 - II* Farmhouse, c1500, c1600, c1700, with early and mid Cl9 minor extensions. Walls mainly of brickwork in English, English Garden Wall and Flemish bonds, with cambered openings: areas of rubble stonework of mixed brown and grey 'heathstone'. Tile roof, slate above outshots and rear pentice. A late-medieval hall (retaining an arch-braced collar beam truss of c1500), with two storeyed cross wing (incorporating a massive fireplace), and rear extensions of c1600, raised in the early C19. The south east front is of two storeys, and contains four gables (diminishing eastwards); 2:1:1:0 windows. The brickwork is of Flemish and English bonds, with stonework to the lower part of the west side. The two west side gables are later forward projections from the tall hipped roof (above the original hall), and the remaining part of the roof has a lower ridge, the small gables at the east end masking the thickness of the chimney. Early C19 sashes in exposed frames. Plain doorway with 6-panelled (2 top glazed) door. The irregular rear elevation has a central gable (the earliest rear extension) with a hipped roof at the west side, and a projecting C19 single storeyed wing at the east side. Part of the lower walls are of ironstone. Casements. The north gable, showing the massive chimney breast, contains the main entrance, with a C18 gabled hood on carved brackets, and a 6-panelled (2 top glazed) door. Inside, there is a Jacobean staircase with turned balusters, some walls with vertical boarded surface, two C18 fireplaces on each side of the central stack inserted within the hall c1600, having moulded cornices, architraves, and upper panels containing painted scenes. Ref RCHM
Listing NGR: SU0073601896
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 107628
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (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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