Bindon Abbey
BINDON ABBEY, BINDON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1120359
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Bindon Abbey
- Statutory Address:
- BINDON ABBEY, BINDON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1120359
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Bindon Abbey
- Statutory Address 1:
- BINDON ABBEY, BINDON LANE
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:
- BINDON ABBEY, BINDON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wool
- National Grid Reference:
- SY8536086781
Details
SY 88NE
5/395
20.11.59
WOOL
BINDON LANE
(North Side)
"Bindon Abbey"
II*
House and chapel. Built c1794, in Gothic style, re-using materials from the ruins
of Bindon Abbey (q.v.). Extended at rear in C19. Stone walls, slate roofs with
pinnacled parapets to gables, brick stacks. Two storeys. Original building has
rectangular 4-room plan with central entrance hall and staircase. The two rear
rooms - originally service rooms, under a lean-to roof. Main elevation has central
battlemented porch, with recessed carved panels in battlements. Moulded Gothic arch
in square frame with heraldic ornament in spandrils. Ground floor has two 4-light
windows with timber tracery under hoodmoulds. First floor has three Gothic arched
windows with timber tracery. The west wall has a 4-light window on ground floor
with timber tracery, under hoodmoulds. Gothic arched panelled door on first floor
leads on to an external timber staircase - (separate entrance to chapel). Above
this a Gothic arched niche. Rear range - under lean-to - has square-headed windows
with timber tracery on each floor.
The later rear wing has plastered brick walls and a flat roof with parapets.
Windows similar to those in original building. Staircase tower to main house
projects above lean-to, with gabled roof.
Internally, entrance hall has Gothic plaster vaulting. Doors to main rooms in
Gothic style with traceried panelling. Simple cut-string stair with square
balusters and wreathed mahogany handrail. On first floor, front part of house forms
a Chapel, with Gothic plaster vaulting. Good example of early Gothic Revival.
RCHM Monument 7.
Listing NGR: SY8536086781
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 108856
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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