Field Cottage Orchard Cottage the Old Rectory
FIELD COTTAGE, LORTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142336
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Field Cottage Orchard Cottage the Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- FIELD COTTAGE, LORTON LANE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/10495/21
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142336
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Dec-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Field Cottage Orchard Cottage the Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- FIELD COTTAGE, LORTON LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- ORCHARD COTTAGE, LORTON LANE
- Statutory Address 3:
- THE OLD RECTORY, LORTON 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:
- FIELD COTTAGE, LORTON LANE
- Statutory Address:
- ORCHARD COTTAGE, LORTON LANE
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD RECTORY, LORTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Weymouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 66880 83157
Details
WEYMOUTH
SY6683 LORTON LANE, Broadwey 873-1/8/434 (North side (off)) 14/06/74 The Old Rectory, with Field Cottage and Orchard Cottage (Formerly Listed as: LORTON LANE, Broadwey The Old Rectory including the service wing to the north)
II
Rectory, with service wings as separate dwelling units. c1811-1812 (RCHME). Main block in yellow brick, Flemish bond, and low-pitched hipped slate roof; wings in rubble with slate roofs. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and basement, 3-windowed symmetrical front; 4:12:4-pane tripartite sashes each side of 12-pane, all to segmental brick heads and to a Portland stone sill band. Ground floor has recessed panels under wide elliptical brick arches containing tripartite openings, with 5-pane side-lights and a pair of French doors under a transom light. The basement has shallow tripartite sashes under stone lintels and the stone sill from the ground floor French doors; the windows are in small rectangular areas with railings on Portland stone copings. Central pair of part-glazed doors in Doric pilasters, with a transom, and a wide elliptical radial fanlight, on 1 step and with stone architrave and responds, with a yellow brick flat-roofed porch with an arched front opening, on 3 steps. A Portland stone plinth, including to the porch. The hipped roof has a flat eaves with modillions; stacks to either gable, and to the rear eaves, to the left. The right return has two 12-pane to the sill band above 2 deep 15-pane sashes, and, to the right, within an area with railings as to the front, a shallow tripartite sash. The left return is similar, but with a flight of steps down to the basement with C20 door. The service wings are separated by a very narrow courtyard. To the right (E) is Field Cottage, in 2 storeys and 2 windows, all paired sashes, 9-pane at first floor and 12-pane below, to flat brick heads and brick jambs. The central C20 door, in a small gabled porch is on 3 steps. The gable end has a yellow brick stack, and 1 window. Field Cottage, facing W, has wide 12-pane sashes to first floor, but replacement lights to the ground floor, and a C20 door on 5 concrete steps. INTERIORS not inspected. A handsome villa standing in generous grounds, now partly built over by house developments.
Listing NGR: SY6688083157
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467700
- 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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