Lower Rill Farmhouse

LOWER RILL FARMHOUSE, CHILLERTON STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1209215
Date first listed:
22-Nov-1993
List Entry Name:
Lower Rill Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
LOWER RILL FARMHOUSE, CHILLERTON STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1209215
Date first listed:
22-Nov-1993
List Entry Name:
Lower Rill Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
LOWER RILL FARMHOUSE, CHILLERTON 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
LOWER RILL FARMHOUSE, CHILLERTON STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Chillerton and Gatcombe
National Grid Reference:
SZ4946783135

Details

GATCOMBE

SZ48SE CHILLERTON STREET (OFF)
1353-0/3/91 Lower Rill Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. C17 altered in C18 and with porch added with
datestone 1704 and the initials R Y N. Built of stone rubble
with ashlar end quoins and red brick dressings. Renewed modern
tiled roof, hipped at one end, gabled the other and modern
brick chimneystack on ridge line with C17 core. Lobby entrance
house of 2 storeys 4 windows. Irregular fenestration. 3 modern
3 light dormers. Rest are C19 casements in C18 brick
surrounds. Off central gabled porch with datestone. Right side
elevation has 1 1st floor blocked mullioned window with C18
brickwork and small square stone mullion window similarly
blocked to attic. Rear elevation has blocked mullioned windows
and doorcase. Interior has C17 spine beam with 4 inch chamfers
and blocked-in open fireplaces.


Listing NGR: SZ4946783135

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
392693
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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