PARADISE HOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1154622
Date first listed:: 04-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: PARADISE HOUSE
Statutory Address:: PARADISE HOUSE

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Date:: 2006-07-14
Reference:: IOE01/15528/05
Rights:: © Mrs Gillian Knowles. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1154622
Date first listed:: 04-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: PARADISE HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: PARADISE HOUSE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: PARADISE HOUSE

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Holt
National Grid Reference:: SU 04931 05297

Details

HOLT SU 00 NW LOWER ROW

5/72 Paradise House

GV II

Detached house, former farmhouse. Mid-late C18. Brick walls, with dentil cornice. Tiled roof with stone eaves courses, externally projecting brick end stacks. 2 storeys and attic. Plat band at first floor level. Raised panel door in porch with gabled roof. Ground floor has 4 cross pattern casements with glazing bars. First floor has 5 similar windows. Attic has 3 hipped dormers with casements with centre horizontal glazing bars. Main ground floor rooms have fireplaces with elliptical brick arches. Closed string stair with splat balusters. (R.C.H.M. Monument 25. Dorset Vol V).

Listing NGR: SU0493105297

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 107531
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Inventory of Dorset, (1975)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.