19-27 Newtown
19-27 Newtown, Milborne Port, Sherborne, DT9 5BJ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295455
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- 19-27 Newtown
- Statutory Address:
- 19-27 Newtown, Milborne Port, Sherborne, DT9 5BJ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295455
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- 19-27 Newtown
- Statutory Address 1:
- 19-27 Newtown, Milborne Port, Sherborne, DT9 5BJ
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:
- 19-27 Newtown, Milborne Port, Sherborne, DT9 5BJ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Milborne Port
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 66777 18763
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11 November 2022 to amend the name and address, and reformat the text to current standards
ST6618
11/171
MILBORNE PORT CP
NEWTOWN (South West corner)
Nos 19 to 27 (inclusive)
24.3.61
GV
II
Angle terrace of nine cottages. c1818. Local stone coursed rubble: asbestos cement slate roofing, hipped gables; brick chimney stacks, some modified. 'L' plan block, with ridge on curve-orginally thatched as nos 28-35 (qv). Two storeys, all except no 19 of one bay. No 19 has two bays, of which the second projects; six-panelled door, of four glazed lights and lowest two panels fielded, up three steps into board lined recess; above narrow margined casement windows, both probably original features; to bay two horizontal casement windows set under square label moulds. No 20 has mid C20 casement windows and late C20 projecting porch, linked with no 21, with two patterns of glazed doors; no 21 has late C20 casements, the lower a three-light oriel. No 22 has earlier pattern horizontal bar casements, the lower with segmental arched head, and shares small open timber and tile porch with no 23, which is the corner house with chamfered projecting angled gable, having windows as no 22: Britannia fire insurance plaque near door. No 24 has late C19 horizontal bar casements and a C20 boarded door with glazed panel. No 25 has similar casement below but 1960s casement above, and late C20 projecting stone porch with asbestos cement slate roof; no 26 has late C20 boarded door with glazed panel, and plain casement windows. No 27 is similar, but with entrance on the North side of a projecting gable, of which the upper half is rendered.
Interiors not seen.
Newtown is a planned layout, of c1818, with originally some 80 thatched cottages: it is said to have originated as a vote catching scheme. This terrace, although altered, retains a few original details not seen elsewhere, and helps to illustrate the original conception.
Primarily included for group value.
Listing NGR: ST6677718763
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261908
- 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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