Oakhayes Oakhayes, Formerly Listed As Rectory
OAKHAYES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1216432
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Oakhayes Oakhayes, Formerly Listed As Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- OAKHAYES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1216432
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Oakhayes Oakhayes, Formerly Listed As Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- OAKHAYES
- Statutory Address 2:
- OAKHAYES, FORMERLY LISTED AS RECTORY
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:
- OAKHAYES
- Statutory Address:
- OAKHAYES, FORMERLY LISTED AS RECTORY
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 44405 93591
Details
SY 49 SW SYMONDSBURY SYMONDSBURY VILLAGE
6/146 Oakhayes, formerly listed as Rectory. 7.8.52
G.V. II*
Single house in garden, former large Rectory. c 1730 under Rev. W Hawkins (centre). Early C19 under Rev. G Raymond (wings). Lias ashlar walls with cornices in Portland stone. Slate roofs, all hipped. 2 clustered stacks to left and right at hip apexes. Central block (early C18). 3 storeys and cellars with 2 plat-bands and cornice. 5 bays, sashes with nearly-flush frames and projecting stone keys to all windows. Front door at centre with flush and recessed panels, panelled wooden reveals and moulded architrave. Semi-circular fanlight with glazing bars. Porch added early C19. Roman Doric columns with flat canopy over with dentil and modillion cornice. Wings are additions, of 2 storeys and one bay each. Ground floor windows, tripartite sashes with semi-circular recessed heads. South one blocked internally. South front, verandah runs length of ground floor with trelliswork supports with a flared pentice roof. Interior: Hall staircase of cantilevered spiral form to full height of house. Plain balusters, handrail and newel. Plaster oval motif to staircase ceiling with bay-leaf ornament and neo-Classical paterae. Rear staircase window with panelled reveals, round head with intersecting glazing bars. 7 internal metal fanlights over doors, of good design. White marble fireplaces to Dining Room and Drawing Room of neo-Classical design. Moulded plaster cornices and dado-rails. 6 panel doors and window shutters intact. "RCHM, Dorset I", p 238 (3).
Listing NGR: SY4441193592
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 401815
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 238
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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