Sunnyside and Wayside Cottages
SUNNYSIDE AND WAYSIDE COTTAGES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1154061
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Sunnyside and Wayside Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- SUNNYSIDE AND WAYSIDE COTTAGES
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- Date:
- 2002-06-19
- Reference:
- IOE01/07673/24
- Rights:
- © Rev Andrew Salmon. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1154061
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Jul-2006
- List Entry Name:
- Sunnyside and Wayside Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUNNYSIDE AND WAYSIDE 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.
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:
- SUNNYSIDE AND WAYSIDE 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 73320 87783
Details
WEST KNIGHTON
1788/6/82 Sunnyside and Wayside Cottages 26-JAN-56 (Formerly listed as: PAIR OF COTTAGES SW OF GARDEN HILL COT TAGE) (Formerly listed as: Sunnyside and Wayside Cottages and att ached barn at rear)
II Former farmhouse, now two attached cottages. C17 core, refaced in brick and dated LP M P 1719 in vitrified headers. Rendered plinth and brick faced walls with a plat band. Thatch roof, half hipped at left hand and gabled at right hand. Substantial brick stack at ridge left of centre and at right hand gable. Two storeys. Four windows, mainly 2 light C20 wood casements and one C19 cast iron casement at right upper. Cambered brick arches to ground floor. Doors Sunnyside on left end wall, C20 brick porch gabled and a C20 glazed door. Wayside has a C19 plank door on north end wall and a plank porch. Interior: three rooms, subsequently sub-divided, with bread ovens in the two northerly rooms, see R.C.H.M. plan.
The attached C18 barn at rear of the house has been converted to a dwelling (2004-5)and is not of special interest.
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: A good example of a C17 and early C18 former farmhouse that retains the great majority of its structure and plan intact.
Listing NGR: SY7332187778
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105974
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 137
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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