RIGG LANE FARMHOUSE

RIGG LANE FARMHOUSE, RIGG LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1303847
Date first listed:: 11-Jul-1951
List Entry Name:: RIGG LANE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: RIGG LANE FARMHOUSE, RIGG LANE

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Date:: 1999-09-01
Reference:: IOE01/00828/29
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1303847
Date first listed:: 11-Jul-1951
List Entry Name:: RIGG LANE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: RIGG LANE FARMHOUSE, RIGG LANE

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:: RIGG LANE FARMHOUSE, RIGG LANE

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Trent
National Grid Reference:: ST 59689 18731

Details

TRENT RIGG LANE The entry for ST 5818 - 5918 (east-side) 18/187 Rigg Lane Farmhouse 11.7.51

GV II Shall be upgraded to II* (Star) and the description shill be amended to read:-

Detached farmhouse. Second half C15 or early C16; altered early C17 (floor and stack inserted); with C19 re-fashioning and C20 repairs. Stone walls, rendered and washed. Thatch roof. Open-hall house with through-passage plan. Roof gabled with C20 brick stacks at left-hand gable, ridge left of centre, and at right-hand gable. 1½ storeys. 3 windows, 2-light wood casements with horizontal glazing-bars, wood cills and lintels, C19 and C20. Three gabled half-dormers over with thatch roofs, C19. Front door, left of centre, plank- and-muntin door, wood frame. C20 porch on wood columns, gabled thatch canopy over. Rear: central 3-light ground-floor window is C17, having timber lintel, wood frame with moulded jambs and chamfered mullions (moulded on the inside), lead cames tied to wood stanchions and old glass.

Interior: a blocked former doorway (now with window) opposite existing doorway indicates position of probable through-passage. The most important internal feature is the late-medieval roof structure, supported on base crucks: 4 principal rafter trusses with cambered collars; large-scantling, diagonally-set ridge- piece; wall-plate and 2 sets of chamfered, scarf-jointed trenched purlins; 2 tiers of chamfered, curved wind braces, most surviving; smoke blackening throughout; at truss near inserted stack, traces of original partition wall below collar (which would have formed one side of the through-passage); left- hand gable is of wattle and daub. C17 features include the central stack with its ground-floor fireplace which has a deep timber lintel with chamfered, triangular-arched soffit; the compartmented ceiling in central room with deeply- chamfered beams; and the flooring over the 2 right-hand rooms (altered).

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TRENT RIGG LANE (east side) ST 5818-5918 Rigg Lane Farmhouse 18/187 11.7.51 GV II Detached farmhouse. Early C17, with C19 re-fashioning and C20 repairs. Stone walls, rendered and washed. Thatch roof, gabled. C20 brick stacks at left hand gable, ridge left of centre, and at right hand gable. 1½ storeys. 3 windows, 2-light wood casements with horizontal glazing-bars, wood cills and lintels, C19 and C20. Three gabled half-dormers over with thatch roofs, C19. Front door, left of centre, plank-and-muntin door, wood frame. C20 porch on wood columns, gabled thatch canopy over. (RCHbI, Dorset I, p 260(21)).

Listing NGR: ST5968918731

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Legacy System number:: 105728
Legacy System:: LBS

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