Ricketts Farm House
RICKETTS FARM HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279434
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Ricketts Farm House
- Statutory Address:
- RICKETTS FARM HOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279434
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Ricketts Farm House
- Statutory Address 1:
- RICKETTS FARM HOUSE
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:
- RICKETTS FARM HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Corfe Castle
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 99560 81182
Details
CORFE CASTLE AILWOOD FARM SY 98 SE 3/7 Ricketts Farm House - II Detached house. Probably C17 origin, altered in mid-C20. Rubble stone walls, stone slate roof, stone stack at left end. L-shaped plan. One storey and attic. C20 stone porch with gabled roof. C20 oak ledged door. Front wall buttressed. Ground floor has 2 C20 casements with glazing bars under brick arches. Attic has 2 pent-roofed dormers with similar casements. At right end, a single-storey extension with added pergola; - entrance in this gable wall. Interior altered, but retains 2 original open fireplaces with timber lintols -one altered. Some chamfered ceiling beams. Note. This is not the house described as Ricketts Farm in the original Supplementary List, Ref. 27/108. (RCHM, Monument 143. Dorset. Vol. II).
Listing NGR: SY9956081182
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109159
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970)
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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