Russell House
RUSSELL HOUSE, HALSTOCK VILLAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261692
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Russell House
- Statutory Address:
- RUSSELL HOUSE, HALSTOCK VILLAGE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261692
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Russell House
- Statutory Address 1:
- RUSSELL HOUSE, HALSTOCK VILLAGE
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:
- RUSSELL HOUSE, HALSTOCK VILLAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Halstock
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 53830 08016
Details
The following building shall be added:- HALSTOCK HALSTOCK VILLAGE ST 50 NW 1 /10000 Russell House GV II
Farmhouse, now house. Probable late mediaeval origins; remodelled and extended to right (east) in early C17; rear north extension of c1700. Coursed and uncoursed limestone rubble; thatch roof with stone-coped gable ends; C17 extension to .right heightened in C19 with Welsh slate roof and brick end stack; brick flues to gable-end stack of c1700 extension, and to left gable-end and axial stack of main range; 3-unit plan to main range; C17 remodelling included insertion of ceiling into former open hall and of axial stack against former through-passage to left; services to right of main range from C17, when one-room extension built to right; c1700 rear extension has dairy outshut on right east side wall. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 4-window south front refenestrated in mid C20. Extension to right has C17 chamfered stone- mullioned 3-light window to front and C19 verandah to rear . Left gable end and rear of main range has 2-light stone-mullioned windows with hollow-chamfered and ovolo-moulded architraves; rear doorway next to two C18 flat-faced 2-light stone-mullioned windows. Extension of c1700 has similar windows, except on west elevation which has 4-light stone mullioned windows with beaded architraves to lights and recessed king-mullion panels, an interesting example of the late vernacular with classical influences. Some C17 frames with turnbuckles survive. INTERIOR: late mediaeval principal rafters to truss over hall which has trenching for purlins and fragment of chamfered arch brace to rear principal. C19 panelling and C17 scratch-moulded doors. Central ground-floor room (former hall) has stop-chamfered beams and open fireplace with chamfered bressummer and stone jambs.
Listing NGR: ST5383008016
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 352120
- 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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