Holeacre Farmhouse
HOLEACRE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215429
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Holeacre Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HOLEACRE FARMHOUSE
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- Date:
- 2002-04-29
- Reference:
- IOE01/06643/01
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215429
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Holeacre Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOLEACRE FARMHOUSE
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:
- HOLEACRE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Mapperton
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 50732 99592
Details
SY 59 NW MAPPERTON 4-12-1951 8/86 Holeacre Farmhouse (formerly listed as Mapperton Dairy )
II
Detached Farmhouse. Late C17. Dressed stone walls. Slate roof with stone gable-coping. Brick stacks at left and right hand gables. 2 storeys and attics. 3 windows, 4-light stone mullions (ovolo moulds). Iron casements with horizontal glazing-bars throughout. Continuous label, returned, over ground floor windows and front door. Separate labels over first floor windows. Front doorway, unusually, at left hand end of elevation, with straight-chamfered jambs and very depressed-arch head. Plank door. 2 blocked single-light windows in gable end. Large continuous outshut at rear (original), forming dairy with cheese loft over. Interior: lobby-entrance with fireplace jamb in front. Staircase, in inner room, runs longitudinally up, along inner back wall. Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 156(6).
Listing NGR: SY5073299592
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 400647
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 156
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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