Hill Close
HILL CLOSE, SWANAGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1172404
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Hill Close
- Statutory Address:
- HILL CLOSE, SWANAGE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1172404
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Hill Close
- Statutory Address 1:
- HILL CLOSE, SWANAGE 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.
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:
- HILL CLOSE, SWANAGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Studland
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 03220 82254
Details
SZ 0382 STUDLAND SWANAGE ROAD (North Side)
8/89 Hill Close 2-11-82
- II
Detached house. Built 1896, Architect C F Voysey, for Alfred Sutro. Later flat-roofed extensions on south - not by Voysey. These extended c1984 in matching style and given pitched roofs - architects Manning. Clamp and Partners, Roughcast walls with rough ashlar dressings. Hipped stone slate roof. Rough- cast stacks with tapered tops. Irregular plan. One storey and attics. elevation has centre projecting bay with lead flat roof. Glazed metal door with lead lights. Right of this a 3-light stone mullioned window and a single- light window, all with lead lights. On first floor a similar 4-light window. Left of the bay, on ground floor, 2 similar windows, of 3 and 4-lights. Small 2-light window under eaves. Flat-roofed dormer with 3-light window. Lean-to extension on left, with similar 3-light window. Right of the bay, on ground floor, a similar 4-light window and, in attic, a flat-roofed dormer with similar 2-light window. Small triangular dormer above the centre bay. Later extension, on right, in matching construction, but with artificial stone slate roofs. At left end of the house a large studio room with glazed end wall, glazing modified c1984. Interior retains some original features. Voysey's only known house in Dorset. See Newman and Pevsner. Buildings of England, Dorset.
Listing NGR: SZ0322082254
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109099
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972)
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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