Holworth Farmhouse
HOLWORTH FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1153772
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Holworth Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HOLWORTH FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1153772
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Holworth Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOLWORTH FARMHOUSE
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:
- HOLWORTH FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Owermoigne
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 76880 83288
Details
SY 78 SE OWERMOIGNE HOLWORTH
10/45 Holworth Farmhouse
26.1.56
GV II
Farmhouse, early C17, extended in brick in the early C19. Coursed rubble walls, partly rendered. Rendered plat band over ground floor windows, rendered string course over first floor windows. Clay tile roofs and stone slate eaves and stone gable copings with rolls. Renewed brick stacks at gable ends. 2 storeys (south elevation). 3 windows (C17), and 2 windows (C19). The C17 fenestration is of 4 light hollow chamfered stone mullions, 2 light type over the front door. C19, addition has 3 and 4 light mullions. All these have C20 metal casements without glazing-bars. Front door at centre, recess panel with 2 top lights, C19. Porch, rubblestone with gabled tiled roof, and segmental arch entrance. Front door to C19 addition, has 4 fielded panels and 2 top lights, C19. Rear of house is of coursed limestone and of 3 storeys, owing to slope of ground. Fenestration of 2 light hollow chamfered stone mullions, with separate labels over. C20 metal casements. There is C19 and C20 extensions to the house at rear. Interior: the partitions, enclosing the staircase are good examples of muntin and plank construction. The staircase has square newels with moulded angles and a moulded hand rail without balusters. The west room has a wide open fireplace with a timber lintel and has formerly the kitchen. The east parlour and chamber over have stone fireplaces with four centred heads. The roof trusses have lateral posts framed to the wall plates. (R.C.H.M. Dorset II, p. 186 (13)).
Listing NGR: SY7688083288
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105934
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 186
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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