The Rookery
THE ROOKERY, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213884
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Rookery
- Statutory Address:
- THE ROOKERY, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213884
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Rookery
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ROOKERY, CHURCH 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.
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:
- THE ROOKERY, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Burton Bradstock
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 48943 89557
Details
SY 4889 BURTON BRADSTOCK CHURCH STREET
8/85 The Rookery 7-8-52 GV II
Detached House in grounds. Mid C17 and early C20 additions at both ends and at rear. Rubble-stone walls, with a stone parapet and gable-copings. 2 rubble-stone buttresses with ashlar set-offs. Slate roofs, 4 rendered stacks at left hand gable, two on ridge, widely spaced, and at right hand gable. 2 storeys. 5 windows, mainly 3-light ovolo stone mullions with separate labels. Metal casements with single lights in each. Left hand (North) end bay is an early C20 gabled addition, in the original style, with 5- light mullions to ground and first floors. Front doorway, approximately at centre of the range, stone jambs with a depressed arch in a square head. Separate label over. Plank door, with strap hinges and 2 glass lights, c.C19. Rear range, at right angles, C20, with a valley roof, similar fenestration. Doorway into adjoining porch with pointed segmental head, a straight chamfer and large impost-blocks. C20 2-leaf door. White stone tablet over this, with an illegible inscription. RCHM Dorset I, p 59 (2).
Listing NGR: SY4894389557
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 398549
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1952), 59
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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