Garden House, Delcome Manor
GARDEN HOUSE, DELCOME MANOR, DELCOMBE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1151968
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Garden House, Delcome Manor
- Statutory Address:
- GARDEN HOUSE, DELCOME MANOR, DELCOMBE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1151968
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1985
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Garden House, Delcome Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- GARDEN HOUSE, DELCOME MANOR, DELCOMBE
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:
- GARDEN HOUSE, DELCOME MANOR, DELCOMBE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Milton Abbas
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 79314 04812
Details
ST 70 SE
2/81
MILTON ABBAS
DELCOMBE
Garden House, Delcome Manor
(Formerly listed as Garden Cottage, Delcome Manor)
14-7-85
GV II*
Formerly listed under Delcombe Manor. Cottage, linked to Delcome Manor (q.v.)
Built c1750 re-using medieval material from Milton Abbey. Walls mainly of
flint and stone banding, part plastered, tiled roofs with coped gables and
finials, central brick stack. At left end, attached to screen wall of
Delcombe Manor, a single-storey range of stone and flint banding, with tiled
hipped roof. Loop window in centre, flanked by slit windows rounded at top
and bottom. Main block has mainly plastered walls, showing traces of stone
and flint.- 2 storeys. 3 gables on front; centre gable with slight projection
and diagonal buttresses. Ground floor of this has 2 C20 metal windows. One
similar window on first floor. In left gable, ground floor has a 2-light
square-headed stone mullioned window with arched lights. First floor has
one casement with cast iron glazing. Right gable has diagonal buttress at
right end. Ground floor has a 2-light square-headed stone mullioned window
with arched lights. First floor has a C20 metal window. Right of the main
block a wing wall of stone and flint banding - at right end of this some remains
of a former gable. Later brick at rear. RCHM Monument 11. (Dorset. Vol.III)
Listing NGR: ST7931404812
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103497
- 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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