RAILINGS TO NO 50 WADHAM HOUSE

RAILINGS TO NO 50, HIGH WEST STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218880
Date first listed:: 07-May-1950
List Entry Name:: RAILINGS TO NO 50 WADHAM HOUSE
Statutory Address:: RAILINGS TO NO 50, HIGH WEST STREET

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Date:: 2001-06-30
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218880
Date first listed:: 07-May-1950
List Entry Name:: RAILINGS TO NO 50 WADHAM HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: RAILINGS TO NO 50, HIGH WEST STREET
Statutory Address 2:: WADHAM HOUSE, 50, HIGH WEST STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: RAILINGS TO NO 50, HIGH WEST STREET
Statutory Address:: WADHAM HOUSE, 50, HIGH WEST STREET

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Dorchester
National Grid Reference:: SY 69024 90708

Details

HIGH WEST STREET 1. 5l91 (North Side) No 50 (Wadham House). Railings to No 50. SY 6990 7/72 8.5.50. II* GV 2. 3 storeys 3 window stucco front, higher than the above and set back slightly. Basement. 2 doorways of equal importance suggest it may have been a pair. Now converted to flats. Early C19. Ground floor is rusticated and has central 3-light sash with segmental head. Flanking this are 2 fine doorways in round-headed rusticated reveals. Fanlights, side-lights, moulded transoms and frames. 6 panelled doors. lst floor has 3 tall sash windows, the centre 1 having architrave and entablature on console brackets. Continuous balcony supported on brackets with good iron balustrade. String at level of 2nd floor cills, moulded cornice and parapet above. Railings to area and approach steps. Urn finial. Nos 48 to 65A (consec)including the Shire Hall, Holy Trinity Church, the Museum, St. Peter's Church and monument to William Barnes in churchyard immediately south of West Tower form a group.

Listing NGR: SY6902490708

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Legacy System number:: 104374
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.