Senior's Farmhouse and Attached Barn
SENIOR'S FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN, NEW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1172057
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Senior's Farmhouse and Attached Barn
- Statutory Address:
- SENIOR'S FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN, NEW STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1172057
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Senior's Farmhouse and Attached Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- SENIOR'S FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN, NEW STREET
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:
- SENIOR'S FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED BARN, NEW STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Marnhull
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 78102 18710
Details
ST 71 NE MARNHULL NEW STREET
4/117 Senior's Farmhouse 4.10.60 and attached barn (formerly listed as GV Senior's Farmhouse) II* House, c.1500 with C18 and later additions and alterations. Coursed rubble and ashlar walls with gable-ended, tiled and stone-slated roof. Brick stacks to gable and to right of front door. East facade: 2 storeys, 4 window range. Ground floor right has a 3-light square headed window, under a hood mould, each light having a 4-centred head. Next is a modern single light casement in a blocked doorway. To the right of the doorway is a 2-light, square headed window with cusped, traceried head. The left hand bay has a modern copy of the right hand bay window. 2 upper floor north bays have 2-light square headed windows with square-headed lights. The upper floor left bays are similar except that each light has a traceried head. Small trefoiled loop between 2 left bays. Moulded, pointed head doorway with continuous jambs in square surround with carved leaf spandrels under a label. This doorway has been mutilated by the insertion of an Cl8 part-glazed, panelled door. The barn is C18 with rubble walls and a stone-slate roof. Internal features (RCHM): moulded and chamfered ceiling beams and wall-plates; 4-centred head fireplaces with various carving and decoration; high quality, original plank and muntin partitions, one bearing paintings and another with carved tracery; C16 moulded plaster ceiling panels; 4-centred head partition doorways. The precise original purpose of the building is uncertain. RCHM, Dorset, vol III, p 152/3, no 4. Newman J and Pevsner N, The Buildings of England: Dorset, Penguin, 1972, p 270/1.
Listing NGR: ST7810218710
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 102747
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 152-153
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 270-271
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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