WOODSFORD HOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1303391
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-1956
List Entry Name:: WOODSFORD HOUSE
Statutory Address:: WOODSFORD HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1303391
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-1956
Date of most recent amendment:: 10-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: WOODSFORD HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: WOODSFORD HOUSE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: WOODSFORD HOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Woodsford
National Grid Reference:: SY 76248 90583

Details

WOODSFORD

SY 78 NE

9/216 Woodsford House (formerly listed as Woodsford Manor) 26.1.56

GV II

Farmhouse, possibly originally manor house. c1600 origin, altered and enlarged to rear in C19. Original section has brick walls, mainly roughcast, tiled roof, brick end stacks. L-shaped plan with rear wing at right end. 2 storeys and attic. In centre a gabled projecting staircase tower. This has, on ground floor, a 3-light stone mullioned window with lead lights, under hoodmould. Similar 2-light window on first floor. Similar 2-light window in attic, without hoodmould. Left of the tower, on ground floor, a 5-light stone mullioned window with lead lights, under hoodmould, and a deeper - possibly altered, similar 2-light window. On first floor, one 4-light and one 3-light similar window. Right of the tower, on ground floor, one similar deep 4-light window, - possibly altered. On each side of this a single light window with diamond lead lights, and hoodmould. On first floor a similar 4-light window with cast iron glazing. Right of the main range a single storey block - possibly later, with roughcast walls and tiled roof. One similar, C20, 4-light window. In left gable wall a circular window on ground floor. Substantial C19 rear additions in brick, with tiled roofs. Windows mainly sashes. Entrance in rear range, in gabled porch with pointed arched doorway. Internally, central ground floor room flanked by C17 plank and muntin partitions. Ground floor room at right end has large open fireplace with timber lintel - part reconstructed. Left end room has stone fireplace surround with moulded 4-centred arch. C17 carved panel over this - C17 panelling in this room, brought from elsewhere (RCHM). Several exposed ceiling beams. First floor room at right end has stone fireplace surround with 4-centred arch. A cross and IHS scratched on the stone. (RCHM Monument 3. Dorset Vol II)

Listing NGR: SY7624890583

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 106405
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.