Farrs
FARRS, 3, WHITCOMBE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1290324
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Farrs
- Statutory Address:
- FARRS, 3, WHITCOMBE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1290324
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Farrs
- Statutory Address 1:
- FARRS, 3, WHITCOMBE ROAD
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:
- FARRS, 3, WHITCOMBE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Beaminster
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 48194 01162
Details
ST 4701/4801 BEAMINSTER WHITCOMBE ROAD (NORTH SIDE) 12.6.53 7/171 No 3 (Farrs) GV II*
Detached House. C17 house (rear part) with an early C18 south range at right-angles. L-shaped plan. South range: ashlar stone walls. Stone slate roof with stone gable-copings. 3 stone stacks with moulded cornices at left hand gables, just right of front door alignment, at right hand gable. 2 storeys with attics. 7 windows to the symmetrical front. 2-light stone mullions (ovolos) with low cills to ground floor. Iron casements with lead lights, one side fixed, one opening. Continuous labels, with returned stops over each group of 3 ground floor windows. Upper storey has continuous label over all the windows. 3 C2O dormers with 2-light casements, hipped stone slate roofs and sides. Front door at centre surround with stone architrave pulvinated frieze and plain open stone pediment carried on volute brackets. Door, wood with six fielded panels. C18 staircase wing at reat with a canted oriel. C17 part of house runs north, having its own C17 stair-wing at its rear. Both stair-wings of 2 storeys with pitched stone-coped gables. C17 range, 2 storey with attics. 2 stacks. Retains 4-light mullion window, with a label. Doorway with stone surround and 4 centeredhead. C18 addition at north end of wing. Interior: C18 rooms have plaster-cornices with bay-leaf decoration. Window shutters with 6- fielded panels, fixing on to iron catches on the stone window mullion. Fireplace in dining room, mid C18, with marble slips and a wood surround. Carved side-scrolls, frieze and shelf. Rococo scroll-work with central pecking bird, and foliage frieze. Rear staircase, with large wooden lintel. Flagstone floors. Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 23 (7), plate 48.
Listing NGR: ST4819401162
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 395303
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 23
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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