Gullivers, Including Attached Outbuildings at Rear
GULLIVERS, INCLUDING ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS AT REAR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120267
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Gullivers, Including Attached Outbuildings at Rear
- Statutory Address:
- GULLIVERS, INCLUDING ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS AT REAR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120267
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Gullivers, Including Attached Outbuildings at Rear
- Statutory Address 1:
- GULLIVERS, INCLUDING ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS AT REAR
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:
- GULLIVERS, INCLUDING ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS AT REAR
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 97371 77463
Details
SY 9777 WORTH MATRAVERS WORTH MATRAVERS VILLAGE
9/135 Gullivers, including attached
outbuildings at rear
20-11-59
GV II
Deatched cottage. Mid-late C17. Rubble stone walls, stone slate roof, stone end and
centre stacks. At right angles to road. One storey and attic. West (entrance) front
has lean-to extension at right-end. Part-glazed door. Ground floor has 3 casement
windows with glazing bars - evidence of former stone mullions. Attic has 2 pent-roofed
½ dormers with casements. Carved stone corbel over door. Main ground floor room has
large open fireplace with timber lintol and bread oven. Some chamfered ceiling beams.
Massive roof trusses, possibly originally jointed crucks. Attached outbuildings at
rear, of similar construction; some roofs replaced in corrugated asbestos. Reputedly
the home of Gulliver, the noted Dorset Smuggler. RCHM Monument 7 (Dorset Vol II).
Listing NGR: SY9737177463
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109152
- 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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