Lorton Farmhouse and Dairy
LORTON FARMHOUSE AND DAIRY, 541, DORCHESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272150
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Lorton Farmhouse and Dairy
- Statutory Address:
- LORTON FARMHOUSE AND DAIRY, 541, DORCHESTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272150
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Dec-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Lorton Farmhouse and Dairy
- Statutory Address 1:
- LORTON FARMHOUSE AND DAIRY, 541, DORCHESTER 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:
- LORTON FARMHOUSE AND DAIRY, 541, DORCHESTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Weymouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 66728 83131
Details
WEYMOUTH
SY6683 DORCHESTER ROAD, Broadwey 873-1/8/419 (West side) 14/06/74 No.541 Lorton Farmhouse and Dairy (Formerly Listed as: DORCHESTER ROAD, Broadwey No.541 Lorton Farmhouse)
GV II
Farmhouse. Early C19 and later C19. Squared and coursed stone, slate low-pitched hipped roof, but hipped thatch to the dairy unit. A symmetrical front range with rear range attached by wing. 2 storeys, 3 windows, 2-light wood casements with transom, the upper lights with pointed tracery bars at first floor, and 3-light similar casements, slightly projecting from the wall plane, under a stone hipped head and with stone jambs and lintels at ground floor each side of a projecting porch with coped gable on kneelers, and pair of plank doors to a stone lintel with key; at the time of survey the porch without roof finish. Centred to the ridge are 3 linked octagonal stone stacks. The left return is plain, and the back has a 3-light casement at eaves level. The attached later range has a slate hipped roof, with large paired plain sashes in brick dressings, and a rear stack. The lower dairy, attached, right, by a short section of slated roof, is in 2 storeys, with 1 above two 2-light casements behind pierced cast-iron screens. The hipped end has a 3-light casement above a 2-light with grille, and the rear has a single-storey lean-to. INTERIOR: not inspected. (RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 359).
Listing NGR: SY6672883131
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 467471
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 359
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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