Merley Hall Farmhouse
MERLEY HALL FARMHOUSE, WILLETT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266292
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Merley Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MERLEY HALL FARMHOUSE, WILLETT ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266292
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Merley Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MERLEY HALL FARMHOUSE, WILLETT 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:
- MERLEY HALL FARMHOUSE, WILLETT ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Poole
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 00594 99060
Details
POOLE
SZ09NW WILLETT ROAD 958-1/2/204 (North side) 14/06/54 Merley Hall Farmhouse
II
Formerly known as: Merley Hall Farmhouse LOWER MERLEY ROAD. Farmhouse. Late C17, altered and W wing added late C18. Rendered with large brick ridge stack, gable stack and tiled roof. L-shaped plan with E parallel extension. 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range W side, 2-window range to S range. Rendered W range with large ridge stack, boarded doorway and late C18 8/8-pane sashes in flush frames, and C20 2:1 hipped casement dormers. S elevation has a W brick gable with a left-hand blocked opening at eaves level; set back to the middle is a brick gable in late C18 Gothick style with sinuous parapet, 4-centre-arched moulded doorway with double doors and narrow flanking lights, similar first-floor chamfered 6/6-pane sash, and 2-centre-arched niche in the gable with a standing figure. Rendered E range has 8/8-pane sashes, with a single gable window. INTERIOR reported to contain an entrance stair hall with a good late C17-early C18 open-well stair with turned balusters, square newels, moulded rail and closed string. Reset C16 and C17 panelling. (RCHME: County of Dorset (South East): London: 1970-: 239).
Listing NGR: SZ0059499060
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412645
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 239
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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