Hitts House and Front Walls, Wagon Stones and Continuations to East and West
HITTS HOUSE AND FRONT WALLS, WAGON STONES AND CONTINUATIONS TO EAST AND WEST, 14, WHITCOMBE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1210734
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Hitts House and Front Walls, Wagon Stones and Continuations to East and West
- Statutory Address:
- HITTS HOUSE AND FRONT WALLS, WAGON STONES AND CONTINUATIONS TO EAST AND WEST, 14, WHITCOMBE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1210734
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Hitts House and Front Walls, Wagon Stones and Continuations to East and West
- Statutory Address 1:
- HITTS HOUSE AND FRONT WALLS, WAGON STONES AND CONTINUATIONS TO EAST AND WEST, 14, WHITCOMBE ROAD
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:
- HITTS HOUSE AND FRONT WALLS, WAGON STONES AND CONTINUATIONS TO EAST AND WEST, 14, WHITCOMBE ROAD
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 48257 01078
Details
BEAMINSTER WHITCOMBE ROAD ST 4701/4801 12.6.53 (SOUTH SIDE) 7/174 No 14 (Hitts House) and Front walls, wagon-stones and continuations to east and west GV II*
Detached House. Late C17 and C19. Coursed lias stone walls with a moulded stone cornice. Clay tile roof with stone gable-copings. Renewed brick stacks at left and right hand gables. 2 storeys and attics. 3 windows, with 3- and 4-light ovolo-stone mullions. No labels. Iron casements with leaded lights and tension. bars with scroll-terminals. Dormers with 2-light casements. Front door at centre, stone moulded jambs with very depressed-arch head. Door, wooden, 6-panelled. Wooden shell-hood with carved scallop-shell and oak-leaf corners, carried on wooden brackets, c.1700. Interior: Staircases, main at left hand, late Cl7, oak with turned balusters, narrow handrail, beaded, square novel- post with flat pyramidal caps. Service-staircase in right gable wall, half-spiral to each floor, up to attic, Wooden treads. Roof with chamfered principals, chamfered cambered collar-beams, and 2 sets of through-purlins, C17. Early C19 remodelling of house: reeded door- surrounds, elliptical arches inserted to stairs and front corridor. Bow window on rear wall. Front walls and gate-piers C18. Lias rubble walls on a stone plinth. Stone copings, ramped at either end. Square ashlar gate-piers with moulded cornices and ball-finials. Small iron gates. 7 wagon-stones to lane. Listed walling continues for c.4O metres east of house, 12 foot high, rubble-stone and stone-coped with slight ramping. Listed walls continue to west of this house along street, and turns up back lane to south west for c.lO0 metres. Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p.24(9).
Listing NGR: ST4825501081
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 395306
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 24
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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