Down House
DOWN HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1216128
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Down House
- Statutory Address:
- DOWN HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1216128
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Down House
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOWN HOUSE
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:
- DOWN HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Symondsbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 43912 91852
Details
SY 49 SW SYMONDSBURY HIGHER EYPE
6/127 Down House
- II
Single house in grounds. Early C18. Stone walls, rendered with stone angle- pilasters. Slate and stone-slate roof with stone gable copings. 2 brick stacks at left and right gables. 2 storeys. 3 windows, 3 lighters with flat stone mullions, moulded architrave and classical cornice in one. Moulded stone cills. Cast iron casements with one horizontal bar. Modillion eaves cornice to whole facade. Front doorway at centre: stone eared architrave with a projecting dropped triple-keystone. Plain classical pediment over carried on volute brackets, continued down as plain pilastersto the stone plinth. Door, wood and all glass-panelled, C20. Small service-range at north gable end, same materials, roof and window type. Doorway at north end, similar to front door, though with a segmental pediment.
Listing NGR: SY4391291852
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 401446
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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