Wytherston House
WYTHERSTON HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1227972
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Wytherston House
- Statutory Address:
- WYTHERSTON HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1227972
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Wytherston House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WYTHERSTON HOUSE
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:
- WYTHERSTON HOUSE
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 53066 97049
Details
SY 59 NW POWERSTOCK WYTHERSTON 4-12-1951 8/252 Wytherston House
GV II
Detached House, former Manor House. c.C17 core, enlarged in C18, and with C20 fenestration. Rubble-stone walls. Slate roof with stone slabs at eaves. 3 rebuilt C20 stone stacks at left hand gable, left of centre (ridge), and right hand gable. 2- storeys. 5 windows, 2- and 3-light C20 metal casements, with lead lights, in wooden frames. Front doorway at centre, moulded stone architrave, stone shell-hood, on moulded stone brackets, Cl8. Panelled door with 2 top lights, C20. c,C18 rear wing of house, also with c20 windows. Stone architrave to modern door. Interior: very much altered in the 1930's. The front doorway is an important architectural detail. Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 184(6). Plate 40.
Listing NGR: SY5306697049
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 402469
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 184
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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