Cottage, Stables and Garage at Downe Hall
COTTAGE, STABLES AND GARAGE AT DOWNE HALL, NORTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245337
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Cottage, Stables and Garage at Downe Hall
- Statutory Address:
- COTTAGE, STABLES AND GARAGE AT DOWNE HALL, NORTH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245337
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Cottage, Stables and Garage at Downe Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- COTTAGE, STABLES AND GARAGE AT DOWNE HALL, NORTH STREET
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:
- COTTAGE, STABLES AND GARAGE AT DOWNE HALL, NORTH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bridport
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 46828 93137
Details
SY 4693 BRIDPORT BEDFORD PLACE
777/5/10002 Cottage, Stables and Garage
at Downe Hall
GV II
Stables, lodge and garage or fire engine house. 1893 by E.S. Prior for Alfred Dammers of Downe Hall. Stretcher bond red brick. Asbestos tile hipped and gable-ended roofs with clay ridge tiles. Brick gable-end stack.
STYLE: Queen Anne style.
PLAN: L-shaped plan. Stable range to north with groom's lodge on NW corner, and with a garage or fire engine house in the SW wing with a large cnopy on the E front in the courtyard.
EXTERIOR: 1 storey and attic. Stable range facing courtyard to S has cambered brick arch windows and doorway on ground floor, window to right of centre converted to wider doorway with sliding door, plank door to left of centre with fanlight; loft doorway through eaves at centre with hoist on flat roof and plank door; later glazed porch in angle with small flat roof half-dormers above and cambered arch window to left; wooden mullion-transom windows with glazing bars. The SW range to left has large boarded sliding doors garage doors with brick pier in between and glazed top lights and large steel canopy in front with braced steel girders on cast-iron column and brick piers; in the corner to the left of the garage doors a tap with a hose support above. The west elevationof the garage, facing the drive to Downe Hall, is symmetrical with two Diocletian windows with stone cills under small gables with deep verges and eaves, and doorway between with stone canopy with small pediment and long console brackets and panelled door.
INTERIOR: Stables retain their loose-boxes with iron posts. The garage/fire-engine house is divided into two bays, the larger S Bay is open to the roof with tie-beam trusses, has an inspection pit and on the wall there are hose supports; the N bay is ceiled.
Listing NGR: SY4682893137
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468733
- 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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