15, RAX LANE
15, RAX LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1216445
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 15, RAX LANE
- Statutory Address:
- 15, RAX LANE
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- Date:
- 2002-01-15
- Reference:
- IOE01/05621/16
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1216445
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 15, RAX LANE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 15, 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.
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:
- 15, 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 46633 93011
Details
In the entry for
SY 4693 BRIDPORT RAX LANE (South Side)
2/363 No 15
G V II
the description shall be amended to read:
House. Late C18/early C19. Rendered brick; gabled slate roof; rendered end stack. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys; 3-window range. Original 6-panelled door with decorative fanlight set in semi-circular arched architrave to left. Flat rendered arches over 6/6 and 8/8- pane sashes; semi-circular arched stair-light sash with radiating glazing bars to centre of first floor. Rear elevation has ground-floor mid C20 outshut to front of C19 French windows, first-floor 16-pane sashes and second-floor mid C20 casements. Interior: rear right room has early C19 reeded cornice and skirting, reeded architraves with paterae to panelled door and rear French windows, and plain wooden fireplace. Panelled shutters set in moulded wood architraves. Early C19 dog-leg staircase with winders, stick balusters and moulded newels.
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1. 5191 RAX LANE (South Side)
No 15 SY 4693 2/363
II GV
2. C18. Stucco. Pitched slate roof. Coped gables. 3 storeys. 2 ranges of cased sashes with glazing bars (1 window round-headed ). Door with 6 fielded panels and fanlight.
Nos 13, 15, 19 and 31 (south side) form a group with 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), and with Nos 17 and 19 Downes Street, and Wykes Court, Conservative Club, and Stables south of the Conservative Club, North Street.
Listing NGR: SY4663493011
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 401841
- 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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