24, 25, 26 AND 27, DORCHESTER ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1214546
Date first listed:: 20-May-1985
List Entry Name:: 24, 25, 26 AND 27, DORCHESTER ROAD
Statutory Address:: 24, 25, 26 AND 27, DORCHESTER ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1214546
Date first listed:: 20-May-1985
List Entry Name:: 24, 25, 26 AND 27, DORCHESTER ROAD
Statutory Address 1:: 24, 25, 26 AND 27, DORCHESTER ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 24, 25, 26 AND 27, DORCHESTER ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Frampton
National Grid Reference:: SY 62640 94989

Details

FRAMPTON SY 6195, 6295, 6395, 6194, DORCHESTER ROAD 6294, 6394 (comp.) (North side) 9/39 Nos. 24, 25, 26 and 27 and roadside walls.

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Row of four Estate Cottages. Dated 1868, on stone panel (ground floor centre). Rock-faced masonry with Ham stone dressings, Claytile roofs, stone gable-copings with moulded fleuron finials. Four steeply-pitched gables to front, and gable ends, crested ridging. Coupled stone stacks with chamfered corners at gable-ends: quadruple stack at centre ridge, capstones. 1½-2 storeys. 6 windows in total. Ground-floor: 3 square bays each having 3-light stone mullions, wooden sashes (original lozenges only at right hand end (no.24)), all under a continuous pentice clay-tile roof carried over the doorways as canopies. First floor windows: four, one to each gable, 2-light trefoiled with plated trefoil in the head. Gables each have a single light with shouldered heads, lozenge leaded windows. Front doors are paired, left and right of central bay, plank, with ornamental strap-hinges, C19, chamfered stone jambs with pyramid stops. Inscriptions, carved in projecting stone capitals on gable-ends: (west) "Let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever"; east "Yea they may forget yet will I not forget thee." Stone shields of arms over. Two rear wings gabled off near ends. Each with stack.

Roadside walls running for 20 metres in front of cottages. Coursed knapped flint walls, with pitched coping-stones, roll-moulded at apex. Two entrances to cottages having short square piers with pyramid tops.

Listing NGR: SY6264894989

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Legacy System number:: 399404
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.