Gable Cottage Including Front Boundary Wall
GABLE COTTAGE INCLUDING FRONT BOUNDARY WALL, CHAPEL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1154265
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Gable Cottage Including Front Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address:
- GABLE COTTAGE INCLUDING FRONT BOUNDARY WALL, CHAPEL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1154265
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Gable Cottage Including Front Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- GABLE COTTAGE INCLUDING FRONT BOUNDARY WALL, CHAPEL 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:
- GABLE COTTAGE INCLUDING FRONT BOUNDARY WALL, CHAPEL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Yetminster
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 59606 10829
Details
YETMINSTER ST 5910 CHAPEL LANE (South side ) 11/109 Gable Cottage, including front boundary wall.
- II
Detached cottage. C16, altered in C17 and later. Originally of open-hall form. Rubble stone walls, concrete tile roof with coped gables, stone stack at left end, brick stacks near centre and at right end. One storey and attic. Open timber porch - C20, with gabled roof. Ledged door in 4-centred arched frame. Ground floor has 2 moulded timber mullioned windows with casements with centre horizontal glazing bar. One similar window at right end with unmoulded mullions. Attic has 2 hipped dormers with C20 metal casements with lead lights. Roof of jointed cruck construction. Internally, in cross-passage, the head and one jamb of a timber shouldered-arched doorway, into hall. Hall has large open fireplace with timber lintel and stone jambs. One chamfered ceiling beam. Left end room - at "lower" end, has large open fireplace with timber lintel and stone jambs - part reconstructed. 2 chamfered ceiling beams. Simple front boundary wall of rubble stone. (RCHM Monument 24 Dorset. Vol. I R Machin "The Houses of Yetminster", University of Bristol. 1978)
Listing NGR: ST5960210827
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 106127
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1952)
Machin, R, The Houses of Yetminster, (1978)
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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