Higher Lewell Farmhouse
HIGHER LEWELL FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1304031
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Lewell Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER LEWELL FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1304031
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Lewell Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER LEWELL FARMHOUSE
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:
- HIGHER LEWELL FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- West Knighton
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 73401 87577
Details
SY 78 NW WEST KNIGHTON
6/78 Higher Lewell Farmhouse 26.1.56 II GV
Attached farmhouse. C17 base of walls, largely rebuilt in 1760's and dated in vitrified headers RSP 176, extended with outbuildings to east and an extension to house to west in mid C19. Squared rubble walls with brick work in Flemish bond to much of ground and all first floors. Plat band over first floor windows. Broadmayne brick to C19 extensions. Clay tile roofs to main house with gable ends. Slate roofs for remainder. Stacks, rendered on left gable, brick on ridge, centre, brick on right slate gable. Original house, 2 storeys. 3 windows, first floor: sash window, elliptical bay window projecting over the porch made up of 4 casements with glazing bars, sash window. Ground floor: plank door front door flush panelled with 2 glazed lights, C19 and C20, canted bay window with sashes, C19. Extension to house at west end, 2 storeys with 3 light wood and cast iron casements. Attached stables and cart shed at east end, with brick walls and slate roof, stable door with plank door over, carriage entrance to the right of this with 2-leaf plank doors and segmental arch over. (R.C.H.M. Dorset II, p.137 (4)).
Listing NGR: SY7340187577
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105970
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 137
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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