Compton Valence House
COMPTON VALENCE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1214456
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- Statutory Address:
- COMPTON VALENCE HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1214456
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- Statutory Address 1:
- COMPTON VALENCE HOUSE
Location
- Statutory Address:
- COMPTON VALENCE HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Compton Valence
- National Grid Reference:
- SY5912693188
Details
SY 59 SE
5/26
COMPTON VALENCE
COMPTON VALENCE VILLAGE
Compton Valence House
II
Rectory, now house in grounds. Dated 1872. Rock-faced walls with lias stone
dressings and string-course. Clay tile roofs with stone gable-copings and
moulded kneelers. Entrance front has gabled bays at left hand front and at
centre over porch. Gable end at right hand end. Brick stacks with stone
plinths at left front and right hand end gables. Two storeys, 3 irregular
bays, left to right, ground floor sash window in stack embrasure, plate glass.
A thin light either side of stack above this, with trefoil head. Canted oriel
window over porch entrance, with trefoil-headed lights, cross-transomed, and
crenellated parapet over. Bay 3 has cross-transomed stone mullion, windows
with sashes. Porch at centre has a chamfered entrance-arch with segmental-
pointed head. Front door of plank-and-muntin type with 4-centred head. Garden
elevation: 1½ storeys. 3 bays, having cross-transomed windows of 3 lights,
3 lights, and canted bay to ground floor at right hand. Complete example
of High Victorian rectory, asymmetrical, with 'Perpendicular' style details.
Listing NGR: SY5912693188
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 399080
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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