Greenclose Farmhouse
GREENCLOSE FARMHOUSE, GREENCLOSE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249727
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Greenclose Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- GREENCLOSE FARMHOUSE, GREENCLOSE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249727
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Greenclose Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREENCLOSE FARMHOUSE, GREENCLOSE LANE
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:
- GREENCLOSE FARMHOUSE, GREENCLOSE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wimborne Minster
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 01922 99989
Details
The following building shall be added to the list:
WIMBORNE MINSTER GREENCLOSE LANE 1. 5193 SZ 09 NW SP/93 Greenclose Farmhouse II 0/93
2. House, former farmhouse. Probably mid-late Cl7. Brick walls on rubble stone base:- part of original rear wall (now internal) of timber framing. Tiled roof with stone eaves courses, hipped at right end. 2 brick stacks, one at left end, one right of centre. 2 storeys. Front wall buttressed. Ledged door into cross-passage. Pair of French doors at left end. Ground floor has 2 casements with glazing bars and one plain cross-pattern window. First floor has 4 casements, 2 with horizontal glazing bars, flat band at first floor level to left section of facade. Evidence of consider- able alteration to window openings. At rear, a late single-storey gabled extension at left end. Continuous single-storey rear lean-to, part of which may be contemporary with the house. Internally, ground floor room at left end has large open fireplace with timber lintol and bread oven, and 2 chamfered ceiling beams. Timber-framed partition between this room and adjoining unheated room. Cambered stop-chamfered ceiling beam in cross-passage, on line of main rear wall. Room at right end has large open fireplace with timber lintol and stone jambs. Rear wall timber framed. Intersecting chamfered ceiling beams:- this floor not apparently framed into the rear wall; - possibly an insertion. On first floor, some timber-framed partitions and contemporary fireplaces. At right end, first floor ceiling raised to expose lower parts of trusses.
Listing NGR: SZ0192299989
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 107195
- 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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