Building 10 Metres South-east of Clifton House (The Library)
BUILDING 10 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF CLIFTON HOUSE (THE LIBRARY)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1304043
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jun-1986
- Statutory Address:
- BUILDING 10 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF CLIFTON HOUSE (THE LIBRARY)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1304043
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jun-1986
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUILDING 10 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF CLIFTON HOUSE (THE LIBRARY)
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BUILDING 10 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF CLIFTON HOUSE (THE LIBRARY)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Clifton Maybank
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 57656 13894
Details
CLIFTON MAYBANK ST 51 SE - 8/44 Building 10 metres south-east of Clifton House (The Library) GV II* Detached Building, original use uncertain, now housing the library. Mid C16. Formerly it extended further north. Dressed stone walls with Ham stone dressings and clay-tile roofs with stone gable-copings. Stone stack with moulded cornice on the south-east gable. Two storeys with cellars. North face, stumps of two walls formerly projecting north. Two-light stone mullion windows with four-centred arches in square heads, not aligned one over the other. Doorway with four-centred head. Plank door has overall pattern of recess quatrefoils in circles, strap-hinges, C16. North-west angle has a projecting stair-turret, with 2-light mullion windows on each face. It is entered by a doorway with four-centred head on the east face, plank door with long strap-hinges, C16 or C17. West elevation has a single-light window (first floor), and a stack embrasure to the right of this, at first floor level. South elevation has a 4-light (ground) and 2-light stone mullion window, and two 2-light windows in the gable-end to the east of this. (RCHM Dorset I, p.99(1))
Listing NGR: ST5765613894
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 105584
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
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Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 99
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