LOWER KINGCOMBE FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1228956
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-1956
List Entry Name:: LOWER KINGCOMBE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: LOWER KINGCOMBE FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1228956
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-1956
List Entry Name:: LOWER KINGCOMBE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: LOWER KINGCOMBE FARMHOUSE

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:: LOWER KINGCOMBE FARMHOUSE

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Toller Porcorum
National Grid Reference:: SY 55437 99145

Details

TOLLER PORCORUM SY 59 NE LOWER KINGCOMBE

2/136 Lower Kingcombe 26-1-56 Farmhouse

- II

Detached farmhouse with outhouse. Early C17, with possibly earlier core. C18 extended to south. Some Cl9 and C20 refenestration to ground floor. Probably Cl9 outhouse at left hand end. Rubble-stone base (to one metre) and ashlar chalk block walls, with rubble stone gable end (north). Thatch roof with gable ends. Brick stacks, at left hand gable, ridge at left hand (former gable) C18, and at right hand gable, C19. 1½ storeys. 3 windows, extended to 4. Ground-floor openings, left to right: blocked doorway with lintel over, 3-light wooden casement with lintel over, C19 renewal, blocked window with ashlar voussoirs and ashlar blocking, 3-light C19 wooden casement, wooden cills and lintels, 3-light casement, iron with lead lights in a wooden frame; 6-rib-panel door, right of centre, with panelled reveals; blocking of a window, with fossilized lintel, enlarged 3-light wooden casement, slightly right of this, C20. 4 eyebrow dormers, 3-light casements, iron with lead lights in wood frames, C17 and C18.

Interior: probably jointed-cruck construction, internal inspection not obtained. Outhouse at south end: rubble-stone walls and slate roof, lower than main house, -doorway has chalk-block jambs and wooden lintel over, plank door. Fixed, glazed window higher and right of this, with a wooden lintel. (RCHM Dorset I, p.253(8))

Listing NGR: SY5543799145

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Legacy System number:: 403693
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 253

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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.