Cowleaze
COWLEAZE, DORCHESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1216516
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Cowleaze
- Statutory Address:
- COWLEAZE, DORCHESTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1216516
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Cowleaze
- Statutory Address 1:
- COWLEAZE, DORCHESTER ROAD
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:
- COWLEAZE, DORCHESTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stratton
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 65552 93597
Details
STRATTON SY 69 SE DORCHESTER ROAD (South side)
7/106 Cowleaze, (formerly listed as Range of 3 26-1-56 Cottages opposite the Post Office)
GV II
Detached House, formerly 3 cottages. Mid C18, with C19 refenestration, and C20 restoration. Knapped flint walls with brick dressings. Rendered and colourwashed upper storey. Thatch roof, with gable ends. Brick stacks at each gable. 2 storeys. 4 windows, 2-light wooden casements with glazing-bars, wooden cills, C19 upper floor, C20 renewals to ground floor. 4 segmental brick arches to ground floor windows, no.2 a blocking and insertion immediately right of front door. Front door, right of centre, with 4 recess panels and 2 top lights, C20. Attached cottage at right hand, now part of Cowleaze, 1½ storeys, 2 windows, mixture of C20 casements with glazing-bars.
Interior: mid-chamfered ceiling-beam with stepped stops, Much altered inside. (RCHM Dorset I, p.229 (6))
Listing NGR: SY6555293597
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 401936
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 229
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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