Limbury Farmhouse

Limbury Farmhouse, Limbury Farm

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1215764
Date first listed:: 04-Dec-1951
List Entry Name:: Limbury Farmhouse
Statutory Address:: Limbury Farmhouse, Limbury Farm

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1215764
Date first listed:: 04-Dec-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 31-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:: Limbury Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:: Limbury Farmhouse, Limbury Farm

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Limbury Farmhouse, Limbury Farm

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Netherbury
National Grid Reference:: SY 45494 95784

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14/04/2020

SY 49 NE 7/123

NETHERBURY LIMBURY FARM Limbury Farmhouse

(formerly listed as Limbury House)

4-12-1951 II* Detached Farmhouse. c1700;. Brick walls, in irregular bonding with a chamfered stone plinth. Plain tile roof with stone gable-copings. Tall brick stacks at left and right gables. Two storeys.Three windows, four-light stone mullions (ovolos). Ground floor windows, renewed. Continuous label over ground floor windows, stepped up over front door. Separate labels to first floor. Front doorway at centre, with a square head slightly chamfered. One oval window, to each side of doorway Door with twelve recess panels, C20. Continuous outshut at rear.

Interior: open fireplace, in right hand room, stone jambs (right hand) has a chamfered post supporting a chamfered wooden lintel over. Open fireplace in left hand room, with a depressed-arch stone lintel. Bread oven in left jamb. Ceiling beams are mid-chamfered and deep-chamfered with tongued and filleted stops.

Listing NGR: SY4549495784

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 401038
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 175

Legal

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