Onslow Cottage

ONSLOW COTTAGE, 8 AND 9, DORCHESTER ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1152968
Date first listed:
26-Jan-1956
List Entry Name:
Onslow Cottage
Statutory Address:
ONSLOW COTTAGE, 8 AND 9, DORCHESTER ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1152968
Date first listed:
26-Jan-1956
Date of most recent amendment:
19-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:
Onslow Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
ONSLOW COTTAGE, 8 AND 9, DORCHESTER ROAD

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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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ONSLOW COTTAGE, 8 AND 9, DORCHESTER ROAD

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

District:
Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Sydling St. Nicholas
National Grid Reference:
SY 63274 99106

Details

SY 6399 SYDLING ST NICHOLAS DORCHESTER ROAD, (west side)

12/162 Nos. 8 and 9 25.1.56 (Onslow Cottage) (formerly listed as pair of cottages GV II 20 yards N of Lamperts Farm)

Two attached cottages, at right angles. Late C18, with alterations. Roughcast rubble-stone walls, painted. Thatch roof with gable-ends. C20 brick stacks at gable ends, and at ridge centre. No. 9 on roadside, 1½ storeys, 5 windows, ground- floor: 2-light casements at left end; small sashes with glazing- bars at right end, unusual wood dentil cornices with bracketed wooden hoods over. Two C20 dormers (casements) at left end, square casement with glazing-bars, 2 sashes at right upper. Doors at left, plank and glass, C20. At right, plank with the top half, glazed, stable-type. No. 8: small cottage at rear, same materials, 1½ storeys, C20 metal casements, plank-and- muntin front door in the angle, C20.

Listing NGR: SY6327499106

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
105487
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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