Merley Court and Attached Front Gateway and Walls
MERLEY COURT AND ATTACHED FRONT GATEWAY AND WALLS, CANFORD MAGNA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1222804
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Merley Court and Attached Front Gateway and Walls
- Statutory Address:
- MERLEY COURT AND ATTACHED FRONT GATEWAY AND WALLS, CANFORD MAGNA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1222804
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1980
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Sept-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Merley Court and Attached Front Gateway and Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- MERLEY COURT AND ATTACHED FRONT GATEWAY AND WALLS, CANFORD MAGNA
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:
- MERLEY COURT AND ATTACHED FRONT GATEWAY AND WALLS, CANFORD MAGNA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Poole
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 03191 98208
Details
POOLE
SZ0398 CANFORD MAGNA, Canford Magna 958-1/9/231 (West side) 30/06/80 Merley Court and attached front gateway and walls (Formerly Listed as: MAGNA ROAD (West side) Vicarage, approximately 100 yds south of "The Brook") (Formerly Listed as: MAGNA ROAD (West side) Archway and flank walls to the Vicarage)
GV II
House. Late C18, remodelled late C19. Rendered brick with brick details and stone dressings, English garden wall bond front wall, brick ridge and left-hand gable stacks and tiled roof, hipped to the right. Single-depth 3-room plan with left-hand extension. 2 storeys and attic; 3:1-window range. Brick eaves cornice, entrance has side lights and fanlight, and is connected to the gateway by a conservatory; windows with C19 labels and quoins to recessed sashes, a right-hand ground-floor tripartite window has 6/6-pane and flanking 4/4-pane sashes, 3/6-pane first-floor sashes, the extension has a label to a segmental-arched ground-floor 3/6-pane sash, and plain surround to a first-floor 3/6-pane sash. 3 hipped dormers have 3/3-pane sashes and decorative ridge tiles. The extension has a 2-window left-hand return. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: a good late C18 brick front gateway has a pair of pilasters to a dentil cornice, matching dentil coping, and central raised section with a further coping, and a rubbed brick flat arch to a C19 six-panel door. The wall is ramped down each side from the cornice level with a dentilled moulded coping, and extends approx 20m N and S. It connects to the front entrance by a covered way. (RCHME: County of Dorset (South East): London: 1970-: 356).
Listing NGR: SZ0319198208
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412442
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 356
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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