Longham House
LONGHAM HOUSE, 147, RINGWOOD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1303848
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Longham House
- Statutory Address:
- LONGHAM HOUSE, 147, RINGWOOD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1303848
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Longham House
- Statutory Address 1:
- LONGHAM HOUSE, 147, RINGWOOD ROAD
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:
- LONGHAM HOUSE, 147, RINGWOOD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ferndown Town
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 06565 98069
Details
HAMPRESTON SZ 09 NE RINGWOOD ROAD,(West) LONGHAM 12/34 No. 147 (Longham House) - II House, now two dwellings. C18, with early and mid C19 extensions and changes, and minor additions of c1900. Walls of brickwork in Flemish bond with blue headers (colourwashed), plinth, cambered arches to the openings, 1st floor band, stone cills. Slate roof, gabled and hipped, with small hipped dormers and one flat roofed dormer at a high level, at the rear. L-shaped block, with the angle at the rear filled with another (early C19) block, together with a staircase wing in the angle so formed, lower mid C19 extensions and c1900 'dairy' unit. Symmetrical south front elevation with a projecting centrepiece (the gable replacing a pediment?), of two storeys, 3:1:3 windows. The ground floor sashes reach to floor level and the upper Victorian sashes have cills which have been raised. Wood Doric doorcase, with open pediment, plain columns, arched opening with panelled reveals and fan light, 6-panelled door. A verandah across the whole front has been removed but its terrace remains, with a moulded stone kerb. The west side of the front has a lower mid-C19 wing of 1 1/2 storeys. Of the larger rear wings, the original (from the west side of the main block) is two storeys and attic, with similar features (and two Gothic windows), the north end of the roof being hipped; attached to its east side is the early C19 wing, slightly wider and taller, and beyond it is a screen wall of brickwork with ogee openings (now filled). Inside, the staircase has mahogany handrails on decorative cast-iron slender balusters. RCHM
Listing NGR: SZ0656598069
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 107660
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (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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