8, THE SQUARE
8, THE SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1303784
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- 8, THE SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 8, THE SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1303784
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 8, THE SQUARE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8, THE SQUARE
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, THE SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Athelhampton and Puddletown
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 75932 94367
Details
PUDDLETOWN
SY 7594 THE SQUARE (East Side)
14/100 No. 8 (formerly listed under The 26.1.56 Vicarage)
GV II*
Semi-detached house, formerly west wing of Vicarage. c1722. Brick walls, tiled roof with stone eaves courses, hipped at left end. Brick stack set in from left end, with corner pilasters and oversailing cap. 2 storeys and attic. Moulded plat band at first floor level. At right end, by junction with Old Vicarage (qv), a single storey flat roofed porch with parapet and cornice. 6-panel door with fanlight in moulded round arched surround, with pilasters, and keystone. In main house, ground floor has 4 sashes with glazing bars under gauged arches with keystones. Brick aprons below cills. First floor has 4 similar sashes, and one, similar but segmental headed, above porch. Attic has 2 hipped dormers with casements with glazing bars. 2 storey hipped roofed staircase extension at rear. Single storey later rear extensions. In left gable wall, 2 semi-circular headed recesses on each floor. Evidence of former niches, internally, corresponding to these. Internally, main ground floor rooms have deep moulded cornices and raised panel dadoes. Raised panel doors. Cut string stair with 3 turned balusters per tread, wreathed handrail and carved spandrel brackets. (RCHM Monumnent 4 Dorset Vol III)
Listing NGR: SY7593794366
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 106288
- 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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