Bumblebee Cottage, Hollyhocks, The Old Chapel and Virginia Cottage
Bumblebee Cottage, Hollyhocks, The Old Chapel and Virginia Cottage, North Street, Bradford Abbas, DT9 6SA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1153863
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Bumblebee Cottage, Hollyhocks, The Old Chapel and Virginia Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- Bumblebee Cottage, Hollyhocks, The Old Chapel and Virginia Cottage, North Street, Bradford Abbas, DT9 6SA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1153863
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bumblebee Cottage, Hollyhocks, The Old Chapel and Virginia Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- Bumblebee Cottage, Hollyhocks, The Old Chapel and Virginia Cottage, North Street, Bradford Abbas, DT9 6SA
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
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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:
- Bumblebee Cottage, Hollyhocks, The Old Chapel and Virginia Cottage, North Street, Bradford Abbas, DT9 6SA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bradford Abbas
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 58927 14738
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 9 January 2023 to amend the name and address, and reformat the text to current standards
ST 5814-5914
11/19
BRADFORD ABBAS,
NORTH STREET (west side),
Bumblebee Cottage, Hollyhocks, The Old Chapel and Virginia Cottage
(Formerly listed as Appletree Thatch, The Old Chapel, Hill View and Thatch End, previously listed as "Dersylma, property adjacent, Hill View and East Farm")
31.7.61
GV
II
Row of four cottages. C18. Coursed rubble-stone walls. Continuous roof of thatch with gable ends. Brick stacks on left hand gable, and further three brick stacks on ridgeat party walls. One and a half storeys. Nine windows, in total, irregular fenstration. Virginia Cottage, two-light wood casements with glazing-bars. Old Chapel: iron casements, leaded. Large C20 ground floor window. Hollyhocks: two-light C20 wood casements with glazing-bars. Bumblebee Cottage: iron casements and lead lights. Front doors: each cottage has a plank door with strap hinges, C20. (RCHM Dorset I, p.34(13)).
Listing NGR: ST5892714738
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105559
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 34
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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