Court Farmhouse
COURT FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1290052
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Court Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- COURT FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1290052
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Court Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- COURT 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:
- COURT FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Corscombe
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 52612 05418
Details
CORSCOMBE COURT ST 50 NW 12.6.53 3/220 Court Farmhouse GV II*
Farmhouse, former monastic grange (Sherborne Abbey). c C14 walls and porch of north range, with C17 re-modelling, and C18 south wing. Rubble- stone walls with stone quoins. Asbestos slate and slate roofs. Brick stack on north range, ridge. Stone stacks on gable-ends of south wing. Stone gable-copings with a small apex-finial. North range, west elevation: 2 storeys and attics. 4 windows, 2- and 3-light square stone mullions, c1700. Upper ones are recent C20 insertions. Doors: stone porch in angle of 2 ranges, pointed arch entrance with straight-chamfered jambs and head. Moulded label over. Jambs are rebated. Door, of 5 planks and studded. 3-light porch window over with square stone mullions. Doorway left of centre, with same jambs and a pointed-arch head. C20 door, multi- panelled. South range, south elevation, plinth and rubble walls with ashlar quoins. 2 storeys. 3 windows, 3-light, hollow-chamfered stone mullions. Separate labels. Re-set medieval head-corbel over centre window. North gable wall, with one small lancet, low down to left, straight-chamfered and with fixed lead lights. Left jamb incised with an S. Interior: north range has heavy sawn ceiling-beams with tongued stops and with 1780 incised on one. Open fireplace, C17, with stone jambs and a cambered straight- chamfered lintel with tongued stops. Bread oven in left brick wall. Flagstone floor in room behind porch. Roof: of King-post construction with diagonal struts to principals, C19. No earlier roof in north range. Source: RCHM Dorset I, p106(4).
Listing NGR: ST5261205418
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 395893
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 106
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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