Box Cottage
BOX COTTAGE, COOMBE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120302
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Box Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BOX COTTAGE, COOMBE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120302
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Box Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOX COTTAGE, COOMBE HILL
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:
- BOX COTTAGE, COOMBE HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Langton Matravers
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 00655 78878
Details
SZ 0078 LANGTON MATRAVERS COOMBE HILL (South Side)
7/17 Box Cottage
GV II
Detached cottage - formerly one of a pair - the other demolished. C17, altered in C19. Rubble stone walls, stone slate roof, rebuilt brick end stacks. 2 storeys. Single-storey lean-to additions each end, that on left with concrete tiled roof, that on right with stone slate roof. Ledged door. Ground floor has one stone mullioned window with hoodmould, and one casement window with horizontal glazing bars. First floor has 2 similar casement windows. Front boundary wall of stone, with irregular coping. RCHM Monument 14. (Dorset Vol. II).
Listing NGR: SZ0065578878
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109028
- 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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