Brook Cottage With Attached Barn at West End Grooms Cottage
BROOK COTTAGE WITH ATTACHED BARN AT WEST END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214224
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Brook Cottage With Attached Barn at West End Grooms Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BROOK COTTAGE WITH ATTACHED BARN AT WEST END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214224
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Brook Cottage With Attached Barn at West End Grooms Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROOK COTTAGE WITH ATTACHED BARN AT WEST END
- Statutory Address 2:
- GROOMS COTTAGE
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:
- BROOK COTTAGE WITH ATTACHED BARN AT WEST END
- Statutory Address:
- GROOMS COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chilfrome
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 58809 98830
Details
CHILFROME SY 59 NE CHILFROME VILLAGE
2/14 Grooms Cottage and Brook Cottage with 26-1-56 attached Barn at West end. (formerly listed as pair of GV cottages 240 yds WNW of church)
II Farmhouse, now two attached cottages, and barn. Late C16, perhaps with earlier core. Chalk block and banded flint walls. Thatch roof, half hipped at left hand end and continuous into barn roof at right hand end. C20 brick stacks at left and right hand gables. 1½ - 2 storeys. 4 windows in total. Stone-framed windows at 'bays' 2 and 4 (ground): 2-light and 4-light with hollow-chamfered stone mullions, iron casements with fixed lead lights. Separate labels over. 3-light stone-mullion window top right. Remainder a mixture of 2- and 3- light wooden casements. Door to Groom Cottage, on left gable end. Plank-and-muntin door. Thatch porch canopy over carried on 2 wooden posts. Door to Brook Cottage, right of centre, flush-panelled with 2 frosted upper lights, C20. Thatch porch canopy carried on 2 chamfered wooden posts. The adjoining barn has chalk block walls, and a thatch roof. The roof construction is partly fallen in, C17. (R.C.H. M. Dorset I,p.98(3).)
Listing NGR: SY5880998830
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 399000
- 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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