53, 54-55 (Old Postings) and 56, Church Road

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1171775
Date first listed:: 12-Oct-1970
List Entry Name:: 53, 54-55 (Old Postings) and 56, Church Road
Statutory Address:: 53, 54-55 (Old Postings) and 56, Church Road

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Date:: 2002-03-28
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1171775
Date first listed:: 12-Oct-1970
List Entry Name:: 53, 54-55 (Old Postings) and 56, Church Road
Statutory Address 1:: 53, 54-55 (Old Postings) and 56, Church Road

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 53, 54-55 (Old Postings) and 56, Church Road

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Durweston
National Grid Reference:: ST 85859 08474

Details

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ST 80 NE 6/24

DURWESTON CHURCH ROAD (South-west side) Nos. 53, 54-55 (Old Postings) and 56

12-10-70

GV II

Row of four cottages, now three cottages. Probably mid C18. Rendered and white or colourwashed walls with gable-ended, thatched roof. Brick stacks at various intervals along the ridge. Two storeys, seven irregular window range. No. 56 has C19 sashes with vertical glazing bars. Plank door to left with small square window to extreme left. No. 54-55 has casements with horizontal glazing bars and a plank door near centre. No. 53 has two wrought-iron casements with leaded lights of three lights to the left and of two lights to the right. To the right of these is a plank door with a flat hood on reused carved consoles. To the right of the range is a two light casement. Above are three C19 six-pane sashes.

(RCHM. Dorset. vol III. p 91. no. 10).

Listing NGR: ST8585908474

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Legacy System number:: 103112
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 91

Legal

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