Rylstone and Attached Front Walls, Railings and Gate

RYLSTONE AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, RAILINGS AND GATE, MAIN ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1154303
Date first listed:
26-Jan-1956
List Entry Name:
Rylstone and Attached Front Walls, Railings and Gate
Statutory Address:
RYLSTONE AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, RAILINGS AND GATE, MAIN ROAD
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1154303
Date first listed:
26-Jan-1956
List Entry Name:
Rylstone and Attached Front Walls, Railings and Gate
Statutory Address 1:
RYLSTONE AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, RAILINGS AND GATE, MAIN ROAD

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

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:
RYLSTONE AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, RAILINGS AND GATE, MAIN ROAD

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

District:
Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Winterborne St. Martin
National Grid Reference:
SY 64818 88960

Details

WINTERBORNE ST MARTIN MAIN ROAD SY 68 NW 4/123 (north side) Rylstone and attached 26.1.56 front walls, railings and gate GV II Farmhouse, refashioned to villa. Mid C18, refashioned and extended c.1840. Stone walls, rendered. Slate roof, hipped and with projecting boxed eaves. Rebuilt C20 brick stacks at left and right of centre on ridge. Two storeys 4 windows, symmetrical fenestration, 2 light casements with glazing bars, high transom, stone cills and high returned labels over. First floor has 2 light casements with glazing bars. Front door at centre with 6 recess panels and 2 top lights, fanlight, with radiating glazing bars over, C19. Porch has timber columns, with plinths, moulded bases and fluted capitals. Plain entablature over, early C19. Interior: much altered though central entrance hall with stair case survives, stick balusters and plain handrail. 6 panel doors and some panelled reveals. Attached outbuilding at west end, converted from stabling, rubble stone walls and slate roof with gable ends. 1½ storeys. Irregular fenestration and one C20 french window. Attached front garden walls, stone becoming brick sleeper walls in front of house with spearhead railings over. Two central rusticated gatepiers with pyramidal capstones. Gate between matches the railing design. (R.C.H.M. Dorset II, p.393 (5)).

Listing NGR: SY6481888960

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Legacy System number:
106017
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 393

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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