Holwell House
HOLWELL HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1153560
- Date first listed:
- 03-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Holwell House
- Statutory Address:
- HOLWELL HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1153560
- Date first listed:
- 03-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Holwell House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOLWELL HOUSE
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:
- HOLWELL HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cranborne
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 06750 13043
Details
CRANBORNE SU 01 SE HOLWELL
7/23 Holwell House
GV II
Detached house. C15 with C17, C18, C19 and C20 alterations and additions. Original range of irregularly bonded brickwork with chamfered plinth and ashlar quoins. Later work in Flemish-bond brickwork, partially rendered. Tiled roof, half-hipped to the rear; brick stacks. South front: 2 storeys, 3 window range. C20 2-light casements with glazing bars. Central C20 glazed door. Former cross-passage entered through C20 door in re-entrant angle between front and rear ranges.
Internal features: a number of early doorways with heavy timber frames; C18 or early C19 panelled doors with original hinges; deep stop-chamfered ceiling beams; C18 wing has a cast iron fireplace, probably early C19; the south room of the early range retains an original chamfered, arch braced collar beam truss roof with curved windbracing to the purlins and exhibiting traces of smoke-blackening; the roof to the north end of the original range has later collar trusses, reusing earlier timbers; the central section of the roof is not visible.
Recent C20 additions are in keeping with the rest of the house. (RCHM, Dorset, vol. V, p.14-15, no.30.)
Listing NGR: SU0675013043
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 107360
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1975), 14-15
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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