Sunnybank
SUNNYBANK, CHAPEL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215779
- Date first listed:
- 05-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Sunnybank
- Statutory Address:
- SUNNYBANK, CHAPEL STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/07386/13
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215779
- Date first listed:
- 05-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Sunnybank
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUNNYBANK, CHAPEL STREET
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:
- SUNNYBANK, CHAPEL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shipton Gorge
- National Grid Reference:
- SY4967691582
Details
In the entry for:-
SY 49 SE
2/237
5-9-60
SHIPTON GORGE
CHAPEL STREET
Sunnybank
GV
II
The description should be amended to read:-
Farmhouse, now house. Late C16/early C17 remodelled in C19, when
walls heightened and interior mostly altered. Coursed limestone
rubble; gabled Welsh slate roof with brick and rendered left-end and ridge
stacks. 3-unit through-passage plan. 2 storeys; 3-window range.
Segmental C19 stone arches over C20 door and two and 3-light
casements; to ground-floor right are hood moulds over late C16/early
C17 chamfered stone-mullioned three and 4-light windows. Similar 3-
light window to rear. Interior: ground floor room to right has
survived C19 remodelling: it has open fireplace to left backing onto
through-passage, with chamfered timber bressummer and chamfered stone
jambs; plank and muntin partition with chamfered top rail and muntins
has remnants of late C16/early C17 wall painting with traces of
flowers and arabesques picked out in black. A notable survival.
RCHM Dorset I, p. 222(4).
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SY 49 SE
2/237
5-9-60
SHIPTON GORGE
CHAPEL STREET
Sunnybank
II
Detached former farmhouse. Mid C17, largely re-fashioned in C19.
Rubble-stone walls. Slate roof with gable-ends. C20 brick stack
at left hand gable; rendered stack on ridge, left of centre.
2 storeys. 3 windows, two are 4- and 2-light stone mullions with
hollow chamfers. Returned labels over and stone cills. Remainder
are 2- and 3-light wooden casements with horizontal glazing-bars
and wooden cills. Segmental window-heads. Front door, left of
centre, plank with one glass light, C20.
RCHM Dorset I, p 222 (4).
Listing NGR: SY4967691582
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 401059
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1952), 222
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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