The Shooting Box
THE SHOOTING BOX, MIDDLE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1251221
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1989
- List Entry Name:
- The Shooting Box
- Statutory Address:
- THE SHOOTING BOX, MIDDLE ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1251221
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1989
- List Entry Name:
- The Shooting Box
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SHOOTING BOX, MIDDLE ROAD
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:
- THE SHOOTING BOX, MIDDLE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lytchett Matravers
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 94284 95376
Details
The following building shall be added to the list:
SY 99 NW LYTCHETT MATRAVERS MIDDLE ROAD (east- side)
3/180 The Shooting Box
- II
Shooting box, now house. Early C19 and early-mid C19, altered C20. Older part cob, rest of brick, all rendered and painted; Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 + 3 bays. Garden elevation: 3 wider bays on right- are the older part, the 3 left-hand bays the added service range with single-storey 1-bay former wash- kitchen and bake house set back slightly on left and 1930s lean-to garage addition on right, 3 right bays: central part-glazed door having 9-pane glazing over 2 panels, in wood frame with square panels at top corners and masked by C20 lean-to conservatory. 16-pane sashes in reveals with projecting sills. 3 left bays: mid-late C20 part-glazed door on left below fanlight with radial glazing bars which formerly was the only ground-floor opening and was further to right, its place now taken by a mid-late C20 small-pane bow window. On 1st floor two 16-pane sashes as before and a relocated 8-pane sash in formerly blind opening. Roof continuous over both sections, hipped, with late C20 skylight; brick stack to rear of ridge on right, one on left of older section removed, and tall one at left end. Wash kitchen has mid-C20 small-pane metal window; roof hipped on left. Rear: right bay has door of 6 flush panels (top 2 glazed) in C20 swept, hipped-roofed, porch. 12-pane sashes apart from C20 window inserted on 1st floor between right-hand windows. Small lean-to at centre of older (left-hand) part. Garage has double board door with strap hinges. Interior: older part has stone fireplace with pilasters and roundels to top corners in left-hand room and plain stone surround to fireplace in rear corridor; other fireplaces and grates later C19; panelled doors, shutters and cupboards; on 1st floor elliptical archway between front and rear; roof has wood-pegged, collared, queen-strut roof trusses and staggered butt purlins.
Listing NGR: SY9428495376
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 108452
- 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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