THE CASTLE (MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY)

THE CASTLE (MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY), SOUTH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1227857
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1950
List Entry Name:: THE CASTLE (MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY)
Statutory Address:: THE CASTLE (MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY), SOUTH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1227857
Date first listed:: 28-Nov-1950
List Entry Name:: THE CASTLE (MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY)
Statutory Address 1:: THE CASTLE (MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY), 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:: THE CASTLE (MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY), SOUTH STREET

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bridport
National Grid Reference:: SY 46606 92823

Details

1. 5191 SOUTH STREET (East Side) The Castle (Museum and Art Gallery) SY 4692 1/117 28.11.50.

II*

2. Early C16. Hammer dressed stone, with ashlar dressings. Tiled roof. 2 storeys. Moulded string. 2 storey porch block with 4-centred arch on ground floor, leading to ledged door; lower part canted, but upper part square and taken on moulded squinches similar to those at Winterborne Clenston Manor. 2,3 and 5-light stone mullioned windows with slightly arched heads to each light, and relieving arches to those on ground floor. Heavily restored after fire in 1876.

Listing NGR: SY4660692823

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Legacy System number:: 402341
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.