Park Farm Museum
PARK FARM MUSEUM, BLANDFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1172649
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Park Farm Museum
- Statutory Address:
- PARK FARM MUSEUM, BLANDFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1172649
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Park Farm Museum
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARK FARM MUSEUM, BLANDFORD 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:
- PARK FARM MUSEUM, BLANDFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Milton Abbas
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 81009 02781
Details
MILTON ABBAS ST 80 SW BLANDFORD ROAD (North-east side)
3/77 Park Farm Museum
GV II
Range of farm buildings, now used as Rural Life Museum. Late C18. Left hand section, attached to Park Farm House (q.v.) has flint walls with brick dressings, raised in brick. Right hand section has lower walls of brick, with weather- boarded timber framing above. Thatched roofs. Left section has 3 casements with glazing bars. Right section has 2 stable doors and 3 casements with glazing bars. Right of this another barn, with cob walls on brick and flint base, buttressed, and corrugated iron roof. Lean-to extension at front of this, with corrugated iron roof. RCHM Monument 19. (Dorset. Vol.III.)
Listing NGR: ST8100902781
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103493
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970)
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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