G F S Room. All Hallows. Askwith House.

G F S ROOM. ALL HALLOWS. ASKWITH HOUSE., ACREMAN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1152024
Date first listed:
04-Oct-1973
List Entry Name:
G F S Room. All Hallows. Askwith House.
Statutory Address:
G F S ROOM. ALL HALLOWS. ASKWITH HOUSE., ACREMAN STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1152024
Date first listed:
04-Oct-1973
List Entry Name:
G F S Room. All Hallows. Askwith House.
Statutory Address 1:
G F S ROOM. ALL HALLOWS. ASKWITH HOUSE., ACREMAN STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
G F S ROOM. ALL HALLOWS. ASKWITH HOUSE., ACREMAN STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Sherborne
National Grid Reference:
ST 63687 16432

Details

ACREMAN STREET 1. 1625 (North-East Side) G F S Room. All Hallows. Askwith House. ST 6316 1/30 II GV

2. The G F S Room is a long stone barn with slate roof forming part of the group. From left hand end to right hand, small left door with double ledged doors below; ledged stud door with lintel; 3 blocked openings; at right hand end, 3-light sash window without glazing bars. All Hallows and Askwith House form a wide 2-storey 5-window front. Coursed rubble. C17 probably. All Hallows has 3 window front. Left hand 2 windows, both above and below, are sash windows with glazing bars intact. At right hand end on first floor, a paired sash; on ground floor, C17 doorway with moulded stone jambs and roughly 4-centred arch to head. Double doors, each of 3 panels with top 2 panels fielded. Askwith House has a 2-window front. New or restored stone mullioned windows. Two 3-light windows above; below to left hand, 2-light window coupled with four-centred doorway. To right hand, 4-light mullioned window with dripmould over. At right hand end, narrow stone rubble with parapet connects Askwith House and Nowell House; ledged studded door within it. Exposed beams and C18 panelling internally. Staircase.

Pineska, Salem, No 7, G F S Room, All Hallows, Askwith House, Nowell House, Digby Estate Nos 207, 208 and 209 and two outbuildings to South of Digby Estate No 209 form a group with west return of Premises occupied by Mr Hunt, Trendle Street.

Listing NGR: ST6368716432

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Legacy System number:
103856
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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