Knowle Cottage, and Attached Walls and Gate Piers
KNOWLE COTTAGE, AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATE PIERS, SHORTS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210330
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Knowle Cottage, and Attached Walls and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address:
- KNOWLE COTTAGE, AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATE PIERS, SHORTS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210330
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Knowle Cottage, and Attached Walls and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- KNOWLE COTTAGE, AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATE PIERS, SHORTS 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:
- KNOWLE COTTAGE, AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATE PIERS, SHORTS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Beaminster
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 47808 01282
Details
BEAMINSTER SHORTS LANE ST 4701/4801 (SOUTH SIDE) 7/149 Knowle Cottage, and attached walls and gate-piers. GV II
Attached Cottage, Mid C19. Stone walls, rendered and washed. Slate roof with gable ends. One brick stack at left hand gable. 2 storeys. 2 windows. 3-light casements with glazing-bars. Old glass. Front door at centre, wood, flush-panelled with 2-lights, C19. Attached Gate-Piers at right-hand C19. 2 square stone gate-piers with tall fielded panels on each face. Hollowed cornices. Squared ball- finials on cavetto spurs. Curving stone walls attached to each gate- pier for 15 feet each side. The listing does not include the C19 house of same name at rear.
Listing NGR: ST4780601285
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 394961
- 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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