Sheerness Cottage, Cann Court and Knapp Villa
CANN COURT, SALISBURY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261281
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Sheerness Cottage, Cann Court and Knapp Villa
- Statutory Address:
- CANN COURT, SALISBURY ROAD
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- Date:
- 2007-04-03
- Reference:
- IOE01/15481/26
- Rights:
- © Mr Duncan Miller. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261281
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Sheerness Cottage, Cann Court and Knapp Villa
- Statutory Address 1:
- CANN COURT, SALISBURY ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- KNAPP VILLA, SALISBURY ROAD
- Statutory Address 3:
- SHEERNESS COTTAGE, SALISBURY 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:
- CANN COURT, SALISBURY ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- KNAPP VILLA, SALISBURY ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- SHEERNESS COTTAGE, SALISBURY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shaftesbury
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 86934 22587
Details
1. 1615 SALISBURY ROAD (South-West Side) Sheerness Cottage. Cann Court. Knapp Villa. ST 8622 7/225 II GV 2. Early to mid C19 block comprising 3 dwellings. 2 storeys. Slate roofs. Sheerness Cottage with rendered front. 2 window bays and doorway. Two right hand bays project forward; windows without glazing bars. Round-headed doorway in recession in bay at left hand end. Ashlar stack. Cann Court and Knapp Villa each have 2 bays facing on to Lower Blandford Road. Ashlar front. Cann Court also has 4 bays facing on to Salisbury Road; frontage continuous with left hand bay in Sheerness Cottage. Colour-washed front. Quoins. Windows without glazing bars; 2 round-headed windows on ground floor in 4th bay from left hand end. C19 glazed porch; 4-panelled door. Main south-west front of Knapp Villa comprises 2 storeys, 3 windows. Rendered front. Slate hipped roof. Windows with glazing bars in-tact. 4-panelled door; 2 panels cut away and glazed. Later gently coved canopy on panelled ironwork extends across whole front. Front facing on to Lower Blandford Road has windows with glazing bars intact. Door at right hand end with some of panels cut away and glazed.
War Memorial Nos 5 to 9 (odd), Premises of W Fanner and Sons, Sheerness Cottage, Cann Court, Knapp Villa, dwarf wall, railings, gates and Gate piers form a group.
Listing NGR: ST8693422587
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 437970
- 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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