Scoles Farm House, Including Attached Outbuilding at Rear, and Boundary Wall and Gate to Front Garden
SCOLES FARM HOUSE, INCLUDING ATTACHED OUTBUILDING AT REAR, AND BOUNDARY WALL AND GATE TO FRONT GARDEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1120229
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Scoles Farm House, Including Attached Outbuilding at Rear, and Boundary Wall and Gate to Front Garden
- Statutory Address:
- SCOLES FARM HOUSE, INCLUDING ATTACHED OUTBUILDING AT REAR, AND BOUNDARY WALL AND GATE TO FRONT GARDEN
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1120229
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Scoles Farm House, Including Attached Outbuilding at Rear, and Boundary Wall and Gate to Front Garden
- Statutory Address 1:
- SCOLES FARM HOUSE, INCLUDING ATTACHED OUTBUILDING AT REAR, AND BOUNDARY WALL AND GATE TO FRONT GARDEN
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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:
- SCOLES FARM HOUSE, INCLUDING ATTACHED OUTBUILDING AT REAR, AND BOUNDARY WALL AND GATE TO FRONT GARDEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Corfe Castle
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 96370 79957
Details
CORFE CASTLE LYNCH SY 97 NE 5/105 Scoles Farm House, including attached outbuilding at rear, 20.11.59 and boundary wall and gate to front garden GV II* House, former farmhouse. C13 origin, main house early C17. Rubble stone walls, stone slate roof with coped gabled to porch. Ashlar stone stacks, one at right end, one left of door, one nearer left end. 3-room and cross-passage plan. One storey and attic. Two large buttresses on front wall. 2-storeyed gabled porch has a round-headed doorway with moulded arch, projecting keystone and imposts. Inner doorway also round-headed. Part-glazed panelled door. Above doorway, a 2-light stone mullioned window with hoodmould, and above this a circular stone panel with ornamental border. Right of porch, ground floor and attic each have 2 casements with glazing bars, that on ground floor with hoodmould. Left of porch, an inserted ledged door and two 3-light stone mullioned windows with hoodmoulds and lead lights. Attic has 2 hipped dormers with similar windows. At rear a single- storey gabled extension in notching construction and a C19 lean-to under catslide roof. Internally the hall has a large open fireplace with timber lintol. Stone spiral stair at rear. Some exposed chamfered ceiling beams. Attached outbuilding at rear part C13, has rubble stone walls and stone slate roof. Single storey. In south wall, a double lancet window with hoodmoulds and lead lights. Buttress right of this, and a C20 glazed door. In west (end) wall, 2 tiers of bee boles. This building under repair at time of survey (1985). Rubble stone boundary wall to front garden, with flat coping. Simple iron gates with shaped finials to up- rights. (RCHM, Monument 126. Dorset. Vol. II). M. E. Wood. "Thirteenth Century Domestic Architecture p. 18).
Listing NGR: SY9637079957
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109258
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970)
Wood, M E, Archaeological Journal Supplement in Thirteenth Century Domestic Architecture in England, Vol. 105, (1950), 18
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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