West Cruxton Farmhouse
WEST CRUXTON FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1287680
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- West Cruxton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WEST CRUXTON FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1287680
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- West Cruxton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEST CRUXTON 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:
- WEST CRUXTON FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Frome Vauchurch
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 60258 96548
Details
MAIDEN NEWTON SY 69 NW CRUXTON
3/89 West Cruxton Farmhouse 26-1-56 GV II*
Manor Farmhouse. Late C16, with C19 extension at south end. Flint and dressed stone walls, with stone base. Clay-tile roofs with stone gable-copings and moulded kneelers. C20 brick stacks at both gable ends. 2 storeys and attics. 5 windows, all with hollow-chamfered stone mullions in square frames, depressed- arch heads, fixed lead-lights with opening metal casements at centre. Ground floor openings: 2-, 2-, porch, 3-, buttress, 3-light, small buttress. Gabled porch at centre, to full height, entrance has a depressed arch in a square head, with returned label over. Plank-and-muntin door, studded, with a weatherboard at foot of door. Rear elevation has a staircase tower, with 3-light and 4-light stone mullions. Extension of house at south end, C19. Rubble-stone with brick dressings, brick stack at gable end. 3-light cast-iron casement with glazing-bars, segmental head.
Interior: Some doorways with original oak frames and 4-centred heads. Some C17 panelling (RCHM) (RCHM Dorset I, p.153 (ll).)
Listing NGR: SY6025896548
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 401643
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 153
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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