Barton End, and Attached Walls at Rear
BARTON END, AND ATTACHED WALLS AT REAR, FLEET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1291242
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Barton End, and Attached Walls at Rear
- Statutory Address:
- BARTON END, AND ATTACHED WALLS AT REAR, FLEET STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1291242
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Barton End, and Attached Walls at Rear
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARTON END, AND ATTACHED WALLS AT REAR, FLEET STREET
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:
- BARTON END, AND ATTACHED WALLS AT REAR, FLEET STREET
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 48119 01566
Details
BEAMINSTER FLEET STREET, (EAST SIDE) ST 4701/4801 7/57 Barton End, and attached walls at rear GV II*
Single House. C17 and early C18. Brick walls with burnt headers. Stone plinth. Stone rusticated quoins. Moulded stone cornice, and parapet with ramped corners. Tile roof with stone gable-copings, steep pitch. (Front range). Rubble-stone walls, tile roof, stone gable-copings, (rear wing). Plan: C17 rear wing and porch, at right-angles to street. c.1730 front range with rear staircase projection. Front range: 2 storeys and attics. 5 windows, symmetrical facade. Sashes with glazing- bars. Stone window architraves with projecting dropped key to scale. Stone cills, 2-light dormers with filed cheeks and hipped tile roofs. Front door: stone surround, plain frieze and part-open stone pediment, carried on stone volute-brackets. Door, of wood with flush panels and 2 top lights. Rear range: 2 storeys, 4-light stone mullions (caretto) with labels over. Renewed and original fixed leaded lights. Iron casements. 2-storey porch with depressed straight-chamfered doorway. Raised label over. C18 stair-wing at rear has round-headed window with keystone. Plain blind oculus, oval-shaped. Interior: Rear wing: extensive flagstone-floors. Large open fireplace with re-set wooden lintel. Studded plank door beside with strap-hinges. Stone fireplace with Tudor-arch head on first floor, roll and concave-moulded jambs. C18 staircase: oak handrail with,inverted bulbous balusters. Window- shutters in front of house have fielded panelling. C20 extension at right of house, along street. Stone walls with stone coping, running for 25 metres at rear of C17 wing, c.15 feet high. Attached stone-rubble garden walls at rear, c.8 foot high. Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 26 (43).
Listing NGR: ST4812001572
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 393776
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 26
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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