Smithy, Middle Angel and Steps Cottages

SMITHY, MIDDLE ANGEL AND STEPS COTTAGES

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1154053
Date first listed:
26-Jan-1956
List Entry Name:
Smithy, Middle Angel and Steps Cottages
Statutory Address:
SMITHY, MIDDLE ANGEL AND STEPS COTTAGES

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1154053
Date first listed:
26-Jan-1956
List Entry Name:
Smithy, Middle Angel and Steps Cottages
Statutory Address 1:
SMITHY, MIDDLE ANGEL AND STEPS COTTAGES

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
SMITHY, MIDDLE ANGEL AND STEPS COTTAGES

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
West Knighton
National Grid Reference:
SY 73310 87675

Details

SY 78 NW WEST KNIGHTON

6/80 Smithy, Middle, Angel and Steps 26.1.56 Cottages

GV II

Four attached cottages. Mid C18, with some C20 refenestration. Rubble stone walls, rendered and colour washed. Thatch roof with gable ends. Brick stacks at left hand gable, party wall of Smithy and Middle, party wall of Angel and Steps. 1½ storeys and 2 storeys, 3 windows, 3 windows, 2 windows, 2 windows, irregular fenestration. Smithy has C20 metal casements with lead lights; remainder are 2 light wood casements with glazing bars, wood cills. Doors: Smithy, left of centre, plank and glazed C20, gabled porch with tiled roof. Middle: plank door with weatherboard brick porch with pentice slate roof, C19. Angel: plank door with one glazed light, rendered porch and gabled slate roof, C19, Steps: plank door, glazed, C20. Thatch porch canopy over. (R.C.H.M. Dorset II, p.138 (11)).

Listing NGR: SY7331187672

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Legacy System number:
105972
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 138

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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