Church Farm House, Including Front Boundary Wall
CHURCH FARM HOUSE, INCLUDING FRONT BOUNDARY WALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120355
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church Farm House, Including Front Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH FARM HOUSE, INCLUDING FRONT BOUNDARY WALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120355
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church Farm House, Including Front Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH FARM HOUSE, INCLUDING FRONT BOUNDARY WALL
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:
- CHURCH FARM HOUSE, INCLUDING FRONT BOUNDARY WALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Church Knowle
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 94089 81902
Details
CHURCH KNOWLE CHURCH KNOWLE VILLAGE SY 9481 13/37 Church Farm House, including front boundary wall GV 12.11.59 II Detached farmhouse. Late C16 - early C17, extended to east in C18. Rubble stone walls, stone slate roofs, brick end and centre stacks. One storey and attic. C20 timber porch with gabled tiled roof. Ledged door. Ground floor has 4 casement windows with glazing bars. Attic has one similar window under eaves and one pent-roofed dormer with similar casement. C20 conservatory at rear. Main ground floor room has large open fireplace - part reconstructed, with timber lintel and bread oven. Above this a stone with fragment of inscription - similar to that in west wall of Church tower - q v.2 similar fragments, one incorporating the name 'William Bennet", found during work on fireplace and re-set in it. Some exposed ceiling beams. RCHM Monument 6 (Dorset Vol II). Front boundary wall of stone, with stone piers.
Listing NGR: SY9408981902
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 108950
- 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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