Weighbridge House
8, BIMPORT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292332
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Weighbridge House
- Statutory Address:
- 8, BIMPORT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292332
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Weighbridge House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8, BIMPORT
- Statutory Address 2:
- WEIGHBRIDGE HOUSE, 6, BIMPORT
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:
- 8, BIMPORT
- Statutory Address:
- WEIGHBRIDGE HOUSE, 6, BIMPORT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shaftesbury
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 86012 22915
Details
1. 1615 BIMPORT (South-East Side) No 6 (Weigtbridge House). No 8. ST 8622 2/139 II 2. C18 and later. 2 storeys; attic storey [I dormer with original glazing] to No 8. 3 windows to No 6, two to No 8. 2 parallel ranges to No 6, south range with tiled gabled roof; front range along street has slate gabled roof. Brick dentil cornice. Stone rubble front. 2-light casement windows, modern windows in No 8. In No 6, on ground floor, late C19 canted bay with red tiled hipped roof; modern projection with one window to right hand. 6 flush panelled door in frame with top 2 panels cut away and glazed; wooden lintel. No 8 has modern door; porch with scagliola columns and flat roof. Lean-to annexe at right hand end with double wooden boarded doors and entrance to No 10, The Haven.
Listing NGR: ST8601222915
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 101987
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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