STABLES AND ATTACHED COTTAGES AT ENCOMBE, 100 METRES WEST SOUTH WEST OF ENCOMBE HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1230357
Date first listed:: 10-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: STABLES AND ATTACHED COTTAGES AT ENCOMBE, 100 METRES WEST SOUTH WEST OF ENCOMBE HOUSE
Statutory Address:: STABLES AND ATTACHED COTTAGES AT ENCOMBE, 100 METRES WEST SOUTH WEST OF ENCOMBE HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1230357
Date first listed:: 10-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: STABLES AND ATTACHED COTTAGES AT ENCOMBE, 100 METRES WEST SOUTH WEST OF ENCOMBE HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: STABLES AND ATTACHED COTTAGES AT ENCOMBE, 100 METRES WEST SOUTH WEST OF ENCOMBE HOUSE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: STABLES AND ATTACHED COTTAGES AT ENCOMBE, 100 METRES WEST SOUTH WEST OF ENCOMBE HOUSE

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Corfe Castle
National Grid Reference:: SY 94349 78575

Details

CORFE CASTLE ENCOMBE SY 94 78 9/92 Stables and attached cottages at Encombe, 100m west south- west of Encombe House GV II Stables with attached cottages. Late C18 - early C19. Ashlar stone walls, hipped slate roof with modillion cornice. Ashlar stacks on ridge, and rising from eaves at front of cottage wings. U-shaped plan, with stables in centre and cottages in projecting wings at each end. One storey and attics. In centre of stable range an open section, with shallow pediment and moulded cornice carried on 4 Tuscan columns. Openings between columns partly infilled with panelled doors. Diocletian window in pediment, with sash with glazing bars. Above the pediment an octagonal clock and bell turret, of timber, with copper domed roof and weathervane. The lower (Clock) section has shallow segmental pediments to alternate faces. Bell section has round-headed openings in alternate faces. On each side of the central feature a range with ledged doors and sashes with glazing bars on ground floor. In attic, each range has a central raised pedimented dormer with moulded cornice and round-headed loft door. Projecting cottage wings at each end, each have, on inner facing wall, a flush panel door. 2 sashes with centre glazing bars on ground floor. 2 raised pedimented dormers with sashes with vertical glazing bars in attic. (RCHM, Monument 11. Dorset. Vol. II).

Listing NGR: SY9434978575

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 109244
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 12 Dorset,

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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.