Vine House, Including Front Garden Wall and Gate Piers
VINE HOUSE, INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALL AND GATE PIERS, PENNY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1153677
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Vine House, Including Front Garden Wall and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address:
- VINE HOUSE, INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALL AND GATE PIERS, PENNY STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/11580/09
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1153677
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Vine House, Including Front Garden Wall and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- VINE HOUSE, INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALL AND GATE PIERS, PENNY 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.
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:
- VINE HOUSE, INCLUDING FRONT GARDEN WALL AND GATE PIERS, PENNY STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sturminster Newton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 78809 14059
Details
ST 7814 STURMINSTER NEWTON PENNY STREET (NORTH SIDE) 8/175 Vine House, including front garden wall and 4.10.60 gate piers.
G.V. II
House, C17 range to left with c 1700 wing to rear and C18 addition to the right (RCHM). Ashlar and rubble, tiled roof with stone slate verges, gabled to left and half-hipped to right. Stone stacks to ends of original range and rear of C18 addition. 2 storeys and attic, 5 bays, Original range ground floor has one 3-light and one 4-light square labelled stone mullioned window with hollow chamfered mullions and jambs and leaded-lights. Fenestration pattern repeats on the first floor. Some early glass. 2 hipped dormers in roof with 3-light wooden casements with leaded-lights. C18 addition has 4 3-light sashes with glazing bars under flat arches. These flank a 2-panel door with a round fanlight. C19 wooden lattice porch with round hood. Insurance plaque over. Internal: C17 staircase (probably reset, see RCHM description), C17 panelling with moulded through rails and moulded interrupted stiles, ceiling of deep chamfered intersecting beams, other deep chamfered beams, some reed and plaster ceilings, and an Ionic doorcase in front room. Brick wall to road with a stone coping and gate piers with ball finials. The Dorset poet, William Barnes, worked as a solicitor's clerk here for 3 years. O Knott and R Rodgers, "Pictorial History of Sturminster Newton", Dorset Publishing Company 1973. "RCHM, Dorset, Vol III", HMSO, London, 1970, p 280, no 29.
Listing NGR: ST7880914059
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 102479
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 280
Knott, O, Rodgers, R, Pictorial History of Sturminster Newton, (1973)
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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