West Orchard Farm House
WEST ORCHARD FARM HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1303728
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- West Orchard Farm House
- Statutory Address:
- WEST ORCHARD FARM HOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1303728
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- West Orchard Farm House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEST ORCHARD FARM HOUSE
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:
- WEST ORCHARD FARM HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Church Knowle
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 94106 80770
Details
CHURCH KNOWLE WEST ORCHARD SY 98 SW 8/58 West Orchard Farm House (Formerly listed as "West Orchard") GV 12.11.59 II Detached farmhouse. Late C16 - early C17, extended to east in C18 and to west in C19. Rubble stone walls, stone slate roof, half- hipped at east end. 3 stone stacks on ridge, - one enlarged in brick. 2 storeys. 3 casement windows on ground floor and 2 on first floor. Pair of french doors in east extension. Evidence of earlier, blocked, windows. Rear lean-to has stone walls and part tiled, part stone-slated roof. Main ground floor room - in original section - has a moulded stone fireplace surround with 4-centred arch. 2 similar, simpler fireplaces on first floor. Arched doorway in west wall of original section. RCHM Monument 25 (Dorset Vol II)
Listing NGR: SY9410680770
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 108971
- 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.
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