Gallows Gore Cottages
GALLOWS GORE COTTAGES, 1,2 AND 3, LANGTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120253
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Gallows Gore Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- GALLOWS GORE COTTAGES, 1,2 AND 3, LANGTON ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120253
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Gallows Gore Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- GALLOWS GORE COTTAGES, 1,2 AND 3, LANGTON 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:
- GALLOWS GORE COTTAGES, 1,2 AND 3, LANGTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Worth Matravers
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 98275 78825
Details
SY 97NE WORTH MATRAVERS LANGTON ROAD
4/106 Nos 1, 2 and 3 Gallows Gore Cottages
- II
Terrace of three cottages. Probably late C18 - No 3 extended in mid C20. Rubble stone walls, stone slate roof, stone stacks. 2 storeys. No 1 has ledged door. Ground floor has 2 casement windows with qlazing bars. First floor has 2 horizontally sliding sash windows with glazing bars. No 2 has similar door and one similar window on each floor. No 3 has part-glazed door under stone hood on stone brackets. Ground floor has 2 casement windows with glazing bars. First floor has 2 horizontally sliding sash windows with glazing bars. C20 extension to south, gabled, of similar construction; casement windows with glazing bars. Lean-to extensions at rear, and a small gabled extension to each house, of stone with stone slate roofs. Single-storey extension to north of No 1 of similar construction. No 1 has large open fireplace with re-used moulded stone lintol RCHM monument 20. [Dorset Vol II).
Listing NGR: SY9827578825
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109116
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
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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