Lower Sturthill Farmhouse
LOWER STURTHILL FARMHOUSE, CHILCOMBE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215780
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Sturthill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER STURTHILL FARMHOUSE, CHILCOMBE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215780
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Sturthill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER STURTHILL FARMHOUSE, CHILCOMBE LANE
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:
- LOWER STURTHILL FARMHOUSE, CHILCOMBE LANE
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:
- SY 52176 91708
Details
SY 59 SW SHIPTON GORGE CHILCOMBE LANE
3/240 Lower Sturthill 7-8-52 Farmhouse, (formerly listed as Broad Sturthill Farmhouse)
- II
Detached Farmhouse. c.C17 with much C19 alteration. Rubble-stone walls, with large dressed quoins. Some brickwork at the eaves. Clay-tile roofs and Roman-tile roofs. Brick stack on inner left hand gable. C19 roof construction. L-plan. 2 storeys and attics. 4 windows, 3- and 4-light stone mullions, with hollow chamfers, possibly re-inserted. 3 wooden casements with wooden lintels over. Stone jambs and lintels survive in blockings. (South elevation) North elevation: early C18 brickwork raising the eaves. 4-light stone mullions with labels over. Wooden casements with horizontal glazing-bars. Interior: straight-chamfered beams with filleted stops. Open fireplace in north gable end, stone-jambs with a straight- chamfered wooden lintel. Brick bread oven removed. The C20 stone porch in the north-west angle of the house is not included. RCHM Dorset I, p 222 (10).
Listing NGR: SY5217691708
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 401062
- 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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