Lower Dairy House
LOWER DAIRY HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1228944
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Dairy House
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER DAIRY HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1228944
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Dairy House
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER DAIRY 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:
- LOWER DAIRY HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Toller Fratrum
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 57959 97491
Details
TOLLER FRATRUM SY 59 NE - 2/128 Lower Dairy House
GV II
Dairy House. C16 core, with early C17 ceiling, and later refenestration and repairs. Rubble-stone and chalk-block walls, with some C20 brick filling to front wall. Slate roof, above original pitch, with gable ends. Brick stack at right hand gable. 1½-2 storeys. 3 windows, mixture of 2- and 3-light wooden casements with glazing-bars, centre upper with rectangular leaded lights. Front door at centre, plank with 8 glazed lights in upper half, C20.
Interior: Roof has 4 jointed-cruck trusses intact, never gable-trusses, with through-purlins. Ground floor has heavy-chamfered ceiling-beams with stepped stops. Large C17 open fireplace with brick jambs, heavy-chamfered bressumer and broad-oven in left jamb. Flagstone flooring. Chalk-block walls, internally.
Listing NGR: SY5795997491
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 403598
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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