Minster View
MINSTER VIEW, 6, SHORTS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290523
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Minster View
- Statutory Address:
- MINSTER VIEW, 6, SHORTS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290523
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Minster View
- Statutory Address 1:
- MINSTER VIEW, 6, SHORTS LANE
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:
- MINSTER VIEW, 6, SHORTS LANE
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 47810 01300
Details
In the entry for BEAMINSTER SHORTS LANE 7/147 No. 6 (Minster View)
The following shall be added to the description: Stone fronted addition to left hand end. Attic, 1 window and 1 dormer. Concrete lintels. Door, wooden, flush-panelled with 2 top lights.
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BEAMINSTER SHORTS LANE ST 4701/4801 12.6.53 (NORTH SIDE) 7/147 No 6 (Minster View) GV II
Attached House, Mid C18. Red brick facade (Flemish bond) on a stone plinth. Stone gable walls. 3 courses of alternating burnt headers create a plat-band effect between ground floor and first floor. Dogtooth brick eaves-cornice. Plain tile and stone slate roof. Stone gable-copings. Brick stacks at left and right gables with moulded tops. 2 storeys and dormers. 3 windows, sashes with glazing-bars, narrower over front door. Whitewashed lintels with projecting dropped keys. 3 dormers are C20. 2-light metal casements, with hipped tile roofs and tile cheeks. Front door, at centre, wood with 6 fielded panels. Rectangular fanlight over with intersecting glazing-bars. Flat wood canopy over with dentil- cornice and. scroll wooden brackets. Interior: window-shutters. 3-light casement at rear with leaded lights. Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 24 (21).
Listing NGR: ST4780901303
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 394959
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 24
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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