NAPPER'S MITE

NAPPER'S MITE, SOUTH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1219851
Date first listed:: 08-May-1950
List Entry Name:: NAPPER'S MITE
Statutory Address:: NAPPER'S MITE, SOUTH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1219851
Date first listed:: 08-May-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 08-May-1975
List Entry Name:: NAPPER'S MITE
Statutory Address 1:: NAPPER'S MITE, SOUTH 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:: NAPPER'S MITE, SOUTH 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 69250 90475

Details

SOUTH STREET 1. 5191 (East Side) Napper's Mite (formerly listed as Napper's Mite Almhouses). ST 6990 7/104 8.5.50. II* 2. Founded in 1610 by Sir Robert Napper for 10 poor men. there were 10 1-storey dwellings arranged along the front and round the inner courtyard. The room over the front range was used for Bible instruction. All buildings have been much restored, the front apparently re-faced. 2 storey stone front has dwarf wall and segmental-arched arcade to cloister. Moulded string above ground floor. 5 2-light casement windows to lst floor. In centre is parapetted gable with gabled bell-cote. Not quite in centre of gable is a corbel bracket supporting a clock (C19). Central doorway leads to small square courtyard surrounded by l-storey dwellings. Courtyard has mullioned casements with hollow chamfered mouldings. 2 pairs of brick stacks diagonally placed. 3 tall brick C18 stacks. Rear has 1 gable at each end. Central gabled porch. 5 mullioned casements with hoodmoulds that on left side (the chapel) with 3 arched lights.

Listing NGR: SY6925090475

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Legacy System number:: 393723
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.