Tarrant Abbey House
TARRANT ABBEY HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1153838
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Tarrant Abbey House
- Statutory Address:
- TARRANT ABBEY HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1153838
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jun-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Tarrant Abbey House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TARRANT ABBEY 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:
- TARRANT ABBEY HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Tarrant Crawford
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 92061 03301
Details
TARRANT CRAWFORD ST 90 SW - 5/26 Tarrant Abbey House 26.6.53 (formerly listed as Abbey Farmhouse) GV II* House, early C15 origin with additions of the late C15, C16 and C18. Main facade on C18 reface in Flemish bond brickwork, rear walls in chequered rubble and flint. C15 cross wing in rubble and flint with ashlar dressings below and timber box framing with tension braces and C17 brick nogging above. Tiled roofs with brick stacks in various locations. Main facade: 2 storeys, 3 window range. 2 and 3-light casements with glazing bars, those to the ground floor under segmental brick heads. Near central pedimented, pilastered doorcase with part-glazed, panelled door. The early wing retains 2 original 2-light, square headed windows, now blocked.
Internal features (RCHM): early range retains a 9 bay arch-braced collar truss roof with curved windbracing; various stop-chamfered beams.
The original purpose of the building is unclear but it was probably one of the buildings of the important Cistercian nunnery which stood on the site, largely demolished at the time of the Dissolution. (RCHM, Dorset, vol.IV, p.87/8, no.3. Newman, J. and Pevsner, N. The Buildings of England: Dorset, 1972, p.416.)
Listing NGR: ST9206103301
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103747
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Royal Commission on Historic Monuments; Inventory of Dorset Vol 4, (1972), 87-88
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 416
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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