Messrs Dibbens' Offices
MESSRS DIBBENS' OFFICES, 3, WEST BOROUGH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1304100
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Messrs Dibbens' Offices
- Statutory Address:
- MESSRS DIBBENS' OFFICES, 3, WEST BOROUGH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1304100
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Feb-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Messrs Dibbens' Offices
- Statutory Address 1:
- MESSRS DIBBENS' OFFICES, 3, WEST BOROUGH
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:
- MESSRS DIBBENS' OFFICES, 3, WEST BOROUGH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wimborne Minster
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 00905 00106
Details
WEST BOROUGH 1. 5193 (west side) No 3 (Messrs Dibbens' Offices) (formerly listed SU 0000 SE 2/135 14.6.52 as No 2) II GV 2. C18, extended to rear in C19. Colourwashed brick walls, tiled roof with slate eaves course. Brick stacks. Rear extension of brick with slate roof. Doorway with 6 panel door and flat moulded hood on console brackets. North of this an inserted canted bay window with double hung sashes with a timber dentil cornice. South of the door, a similar canted bay, and one double hung sash window with centre glazing bar. Blocked door opening at south end of facade. First floor has 4 double hung sash windows with central glazing bars. Plaster keystones to arches. South of the main building an archway leads to a through passage. Above this is a 3-light double hung sash window with glazing bars. Interior much altered. Staircase appears early C19, with simple handrail and square balusters. RCHM Monument 61.
Listing NGR: SU0090500106
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 107159
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1975)
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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