Fountain Dale and attached outbuilding wall and gate pier
Fountain Dale and attached outbuilding wall and gate pier, Ricket Lane
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1193415
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Fountain Dale and attached outbuilding wall and gate pier
- Statutory Address:
- Fountain Dale and attached outbuilding wall and gate pier, Ricket Lane
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1193415
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Fountain Dale and attached outbuilding wall and gate pier
- Statutory Address 1:
- Fountain Dale and attached outbuilding wall and gate pier, Ricket Lane
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:
- Fountain Dale and attached outbuilding wall and gate pier, Ricket Lane
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Nottinghamshire
- District:
- Newark and Sherwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Blidworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SK5663256703
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 3 August 2023 to correct a typo in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
SK 55 NE
1/9
BLIDWORTH (north side)
Fountain Dale and attached outbuilding wall and gate pier
11.8.61
G.V.
II
House and attached outbuilding, wall and gate pier. Mid C18 with early C19 front and later C19 extensions. Early C19 front of roughcast render over red brick. Hipped slate roof. Single ridge stack. Wide bracketed eaves. Two storeys, three bays, the single central bay being canted. Central doorway with C19 panelled door and Gothick glazing bar overlight. Either side are single sashes with Gothick glazing bars. Above are three similar sashes. To the rear is a higher two storey ashlar range with hipped slate roof and single ridge stack. To the right is a single storey, single bay extension with hipped slate roof. To the left and set back is a two storey four bay range. The left three bays of whitewashed ashlar slightly project from the single roughcast bay on the right. Two small casements with Gothick glazing bars, to the left is a single tripartite glazing bar Yorkshire sash. The two openings on the left in former carriage archways. Above, single glazing bar sash and to the left three sashes with Gothick glazing bars. The rear of this wing is C18 build. Projecting from the left is a late C19 two storey painted red brick outbuilding with hipped slate roof and dogtooth eaves. The side wall has two pointed arched fixed lights with Gothick glazing bars. The front wall has a single quadripartite glazing bar casement on the first floor. Attached to the rear left is a narrow coped ashlar wall and gate pier with shaped coping. The east/garden front is set on a plinth and has a single glazing bar sash in the single storey extension. To the right are two low glazing bar sashes. Above are two similar smaller sashes. Fountain Dale is the traditional home of the original of Sir Walter Scott's "Friar Tuck".
Listing NGR: SK5663256703
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 242065
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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