Higher Abbott's Wootton Farmhouse
HIGHER ABBOTT'S WOOTTON FARMHOUSE, ABBOTT'S WOOTTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1216622
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Abbott's Wootton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER ABBOTT'S WOOTTON FARMHOUSE, ABBOTT'S WOOTTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1216622
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Abbott's Wootton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER ABBOTT'S WOOTTON FARMHOUSE, ABBOTT'S WOOTTON 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:
- HIGHER ABBOTT'S WOOTTON FARMHOUSE, ABBOTT'S WOOTTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitchurch Canonicorum
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 37946 96463
Details
SY 39 NE WHITCHURCH CANONICORUM ABBOTT'S WOOTTON LANE
2/158 Higher Abbott's Wootton 7.8.52 Farmhouse
- II*
Farmhouse, former monastic grange. Mid C15 with later alterations and C19 extension to south west. Rubble-stone walls with stone quoins. Stone buttress on south elevation with weathering and plinth. Plain tile roof with a gable end at left hand and hipped at right hand. One brick stack at left hand gable and at rear eaves. Plan: not certainly recoverable. Living accommodation, left of door; agricultural use right of door, perhaps originally divided by central cross-passage. Originally first floor hall. 2 storeys. 4 windows, left hand ground has the moulded surround and trefoil-cusped head of a 4-light stone-mullion window. Mullions removed. Label over with returned ends and square stops. Now has 3-light wooden casements with lead lights. Rest: 2-light metal casements with wooden frames and cills, leaded lights. Front door at centre, with stone jambs and Tudor-arch head, rebated on inner face. Porch, brick with tiled pentice roof over, C18. Wide plank door. Interior: Hall with C15 moulded ceiling beams, making 4 large compartments. Deep chamfered beam with half-pyramid stops. Roof: arch-braced collar-beam construction, C15. Inverted ceiling with hollow chamfered beams, C18. Plank-and-muntin partitions is ground floor and first floor rooms. "RCHM, Dorset I", p 264 (5).
Listing NGR: SY3794696463
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 402099
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 264
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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