Whitcombe Farmhouse
WHITCOMBE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210501
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Whitcombe Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WHITCOMBE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210501
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Whitcombe Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITCOMBE FARMHOUSE
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:
- WHITCOMBE FARMHOUSE
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 48824 00565
Details
BEAMINSTER STORRIDGE HILL ST 40 SE 4/151 Whitcombe Farmhouse - II
Farmhouse. c.1700. Brick walls in Flemish Bond. Slate roof with stone gable copings. Square stone stacks with cornices at left and right hand gables. Stone flashings. 2 storeys and inserted C20 dormers. 3-light stone mullions (square with beading). C19 cast-iron casements. No labels. 3 tension-bars, scrolled to first floor windows. Front door, wooden with 9 glass panels, C20. Stone surround with similar beaded moulding. Simple open stone pediment. Continuous outshut at rear with stone gable-copings and rubble stone rear wall. Extensions to house at left and right hand ends. Dairy and Granary. Interior: flagstone floors. Fireplace at east end, has a wooden lintel with a slight chamfer, stopped. Stone fireplace at west end, has square jambs and a stone lintel over. Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 26 (56).
Listing NGR: ST4882400565
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 395108
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 26
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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