No 32 Including Outhouses to South East

NO 32 INCLUDING OUTHOUSES TO SOUTH EAST, 32, RAX LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1216442
Date first listed:
09-Aug-1974
List Entry Name:
No 32 Including Outhouses to South East
Statutory Address:
NO 32 INCLUDING OUTHOUSES TO SOUTH EAST, 32, RAX LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1216442
Date first listed:
09-Aug-1974
List Entry Name:
No 32 Including Outhouses to South East
Statutory Address 1:
NO 32 INCLUDING OUTHOUSES TO SOUTH EAST, 32, RAX 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
NO 32 INCLUDING OUTHOUSES TO SOUTH EAST, 32, RAX LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Bridport
National Grid Reference:
SY 46604 93079

Details

1. RAX LANE 5191 (North Side)

No 32, including outhouses to south-east SY 4693 2/83 9.8.74.

II GV

2. C18 or early C19. Former rope works. Hammer dressed stone. 2 ranges, one of 4 storeys, and with 5 ranges of 3-light casements with glazing bars; the other of 3 storeys, with 3 ranges of 2-light segment-headed casements. Doorways in centre of each range with winch hoists above. Range of stables and outhouses to south-east: red brick. Together with the gatehouse, Wykes Court (North Street) and the range of buildings to the south of Wykes Court garden, they form an unusual industrial complex of which Wykes Court was presumably the managers house.

Rax, Garden wall to Rax, The Grove, Garden wall to the Grove, No 32 and its outhouses, Gatehouse of No 32 and its wall, Outhouses to the south of Wykes Court Garden (all on north side), Nos 13, 15, 19 and 31 (on south side), Nos 17 and 19 Downes Street, Wykes Court, Conservative Club and Stables south of Conservative Club, North Street, all form a group.

Listing NGR: SY4661293079

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
401836
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.

Ordnance survey map of No 32 Including Outhouses to South East

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