BEECH COTTAGE AND GARDEN GATE

BEECH COTTAGE AND GARDEN GATE, OBORNE ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1152677
Date first listed:: 04-Oct-1973
List Entry Name:: BEECH COTTAGE AND GARDEN GATE
Statutory Address:: BEECH COTTAGE AND GARDEN GATE, OBORNE ROAD

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Date:: 2003-07-07
Reference:: IOE01/10165/31
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1152677
Date first listed:: 04-Oct-1973
List Entry Name:: BEECH COTTAGE AND GARDEN GATE
Statutory Address 1:: BEECH COTTAGE AND GARDEN GATE, OBORNE ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: BEECH COTTAGE AND GARDEN GATE, OBORNE ROAD

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 64557 16925

Details

OBORNE ROAD 1. 1625 (South-East Side) Beech Cottage and garden gate ST 6416 2/262 II GV 2. Two 2-storey stone rubble parallel ranges. Front range; late C18 to early C19 probably. Rear range later; slate roof. Colourwashed cement rendered entrance front at right angles to road. Plaintile roof. 2 windows above, one at either end; 2 windows and door (to left hand) below. Sash windows with glazing bars intact. Doorway has recent hood on shaped brackets; 6-panelled door, top 2 panels glazed; ledged reveals. Gable end to road, 3-light leaded attic casement above. Wrought iron gate before path to main entrance; arrow shaped finials to lower rails and curvilinear pattern above; spear-headed finials above topmost horizontal rail.

Beech Cottage and garden gate, north-west boundary wall to Beech Cottage, Castle Farmhouse, boundary wall to south-west of Castle Farmhouse, Digby Estate No 9, Digby Estate No 10, wall adjoining to the north and outbuilding at north end of wall of Digby Estate No 10, outbuilding attached to south- west end of Digby Estate Nos 275 and 276, Digby Estate Nos 275 and 276, and outhouse to south-east end of Nos 275 and 276 form a group with outhouses to Castle Farm and enclosing wall on north-east side of Osborne Road (North- west side).

Listing NGR: ST6455816921

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Legacy System number:: 104129
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.