Ranters' Lodge, With Enclosing Wall
RANTERS' LODGE, WITH ENCLOSING WALL, CHISWELL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205359
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Ranters' Lodge, With Enclosing Wall
- Statutory Address:
- RANTERS' LODGE, WITH ENCLOSING WALL, CHISWELL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205359
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Ranters' Lodge, With Enclosing Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- RANTERS' LODGE, WITH ENCLOSING WALL, CHISWELL
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:
- RANTERS' LODGE, WITH ENCLOSING WALL, CHISWELL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Portland
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 68331 73568
Details
PORTLAND
SY6873 CHISWELL, Chesil 969-1/3/21 (West side) 28/01/87 Ranters' Lodge,with enclosing wall
II
Also known as The Dead House. Small cottage with outbuilding, altered for use as Methodist chapel. Late C18 or early C19. Large squared coursed block, felted roofs. Two small gabled buildings in parallel, enclosed in stone boundary wall, set to slope to W of Chiswell, behind No 57 (not included). Main building, to N, has door flanked by openings each side with remains of casements on S front, into courtyard, and a square opening in gable to W, beneath small stone stack. Raised verges. Roof covering has been removed, temporary felting remains. Interior mainly gutted. Subsidiary Features: To the S across a small yard, a smaller building, set into beach slope to W, has 3 openings at first floor above door and 2 openings at ground floor. Large loading opening with pair of plank doors at first-floor level to W;, raised verges. This building is in rubble, with lower roof pitch than main chapel. A stone retaining wall runs c 2m W from the W gable of the chapel, returns to gable of the second building, all in good squared Portland block. These buildings are of historical interest, although apparently abandoned and deteriorating at time of survey (May 1991). The name derives from a sect of Methodists so named for their procedure in meetings.
Listing NGR: SY6833173568
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 381917
- 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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