Court Orchard
COURT ORCHARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1287140
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Court Orchard
- Statutory Address:
- COURT ORCHARD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1287140
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Court Orchard
- Statutory Address 1:
- COURT ORCHARD
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:
- COURT ORCHARD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stoke Abbott
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 45312 00647
Details
ST 4400 & 4500 STOKE ABBOTT STOKE ABBOTT VILLAGE 11-11-1966 12/294 Court Orchard
GV II*
Detached Farmhouse. Dated 1751, tablet under eaves centre. Dated HL 1762 in a fielded panel set into porch. Ashlar stone walls with a continuous string over ground floor windows, stepped up over front door. Hipped thatch roof, of steep pitch. Stone stack with moulded cornice at centre ridge. Symmetrical facade: 2 storeys. 5 windows, 2-light square-section stone mullions with beaded arrises. Continuous architrave with chamfered cills. Fixed lead lights to most windows. 5 iron casements with 3 tension-bars. Front door at centre with ovolo- roll jambs. Dropped keystone at centre. Door, plank-and-muntin, studded, hinged at centre, C18, Stone porch at centre with round-arch entrance and dropped key. Projecting impost-blocks. Stone gable-coping with apex- block and ball finial. Datestone, see above. Gable-wall to lane has 2 single-light windows, each with a stone label over. Interior: Lobby-entrance, with original doorcase stair in beside fireplace jambs. Double-pile house under one roof, with a smaller rear-pile. Fielded-panel, C18 shutters and window seat. Left hand room fireplace (blocked) with chamfered lintel. Attached front wall, rubble-stone with chamfered coping-stones ramped at left hand corner, and returned. Right hand end stops at dairy. Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 226(2).
Listing NGR: ST4531200647
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 403119
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 226
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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