Cothays Farmhouse
COTHAYS FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1287335
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Cothays Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- COTHAYS FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1287335
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Cothays Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- COTHAYS FARMHOUSE
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:
- COTHAYS FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitchurch Canonicorum
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 39787 95293
Details
SY 39 NE WHITCHURCH CANONICORUM WHITCHURCH VILLAGE
2/184 Cothays Farmhouse 7.8.52 G.V. II
Farmhouse. C16 with later alterations. Rubble walls washed, and some new brick quoins. Thatch roof with gable end at left hand and large hip at right hand, with catslide roof over later carriage-house. Main stack on original rear wall, projecting and with moulded plinth. L-plan house, the small rear wing towards the lane. Cross-passage, with original kitchen at south-east end of house. South elevation: 1½ storeys. 5 windows to main range, wooden casements with glazing bars, some renewed, mainly of 2 lights, one of 3 lights. Front door, right of centre, wood C20. Interior: cross-passage formerly at south end. Partition wall of muntins with C20 brick nogging, into hall. Integral 2-centred doorway. Hall fireplace: stone with Tudor-arch head and moulded jambs. Spandrels with carvings of an axe (left) and a knife (right). Straight deep-chamfered beams, C16. "RCHM Dorset In, p 264 (6).
Listing NGR: SY3978795293
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 402748
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 264
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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