Melplash Court Farmhouse
MELPLASH COURT FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215908
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Melplash Court Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MELPLASH COURT FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215908
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Melplash Court Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MELPLASH COURT 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:
- MELPLASH COURT FARMHOUSE
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 48734 98367
Details
SY 49 NE NETHERBURY MELPLASH 4-12-1951 7/137 Melplash Court Farmhouse, (formerly listed as Dairy Farmhouse)
II
Detached Farmhouse. Early C17, with much refenestration in Cl9. Rubble stone walls. Asbestos slate roof with stone gable-copings. Brick stack at right hand gable. 2 storeys. 3 windows to north elevation, 2- and 3-light wooden casements with glazing-bars, wooden cills, C20. South elevation has Cl9 cast-iron casements with full glazing-bars. Front porch in the angle, C20, with a plank-and-muntin studded door, CW. Stone-arch voussoirs over. Interior:west room, deep-chamfered ceiling-beam. Open fireplace has straight-chamfered stone jambs, and a chamfered wooden lintel over. Source; R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 174(10).
Listing NGR: SY4873498367
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 401210
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 174
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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