South Poorton Cottage

SOUTH POORTON COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1227890
Date first listed:
31-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:
South Poorton Cottage
Statutory Address:
SOUTH POORTON COTTAGE
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1227890
Date first listed:
31-Jul-1984
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:
South Poorton Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
SOUTH POORTON COTTAGE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
SOUTH POORTON COTTAGE

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

District:
Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Powerstock
National Grid Reference:
SY 51976 97878

Details

In the entry for

CIVIL PARISH OF POWERSTOCK 8/237

SOUTH POORTON Redthorn Cottage

The address shall be Amended to read

CIVIL PARISH OF POWERSTOCK

SOUTH POORTON South Poorton Cottage

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SY 59 N4 POWERSTOCK SOUTH POORTON

8/237 Redthorn Cottage

GV II

Detached Cottage, c.C18. Rubble stone walls. Thatch roof with gable ends. C20 brick stack at left hand ridge, and right hand gable-coping. 2 storeys. 2 windows, 3 and 2-light wooden casements with glazing-bars, renewed. Front door, with one glass light, C20. Thatch porch canopy carried on 2 wooden posts. Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p.185(21).

Listing NGR: SY5197697878

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
402383
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 185

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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