Lower Holt Farmhouse
LOWER HOLT FARMHOUSE, HOLT LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1154182
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Holt Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER HOLT FARMHOUSE, HOLT LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1154182
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Holt Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER HOLT FARMHOUSE, HOLT LANE
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:
- LOWER HOLT FARMHOUSE, HOLT LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Melbury Osmond
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 56953 08782
Details
MELBURY OSMOND ST 50 NE HOLT LANE 2/88 Lower Holt Farmhouse 11.11.66 II Detached Farmhouse. C18, extended at right angles in C19, to join earlier structure at east end. Rubble-stone walls. Thatch roof to original farmhouse, slate roof to C19 range, and corrugated asbestos further east. C20 brick stack on south gable, and on east gable. Two storeys. Gable- end and 3 windows to south elevation, with the C18 return having a sash window and a 2-light casement over. C19 range has cast-iron casements with glazing-bars, wood cills, and dressed stone voussoirs, these are 3-light to ground floor and 2-light over. Doorway is left of centre, flush-panelled and with wood frame, C19. The north elevation has similar cast-iron casements with glazing-bars canted bay window on the gable-end at right hand, late C19. Plank door, left of centre, C20. (RCHM. Dorset I, p.161(21))
Listing NGR: ST5695308782
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105836
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1952), 161
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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