South Down Farmhouse and Attached Front Walls
SOUTH DOWN FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1304112
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- South Down Farmhouse and Attached Front Walls
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTH DOWN FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1304112
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- South Down Farmhouse and Attached Front Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTH DOWN FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS
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:
- SOUTH DOWN FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Owermoigne
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 75729 82196
Details
SY 78 SE OWERMOIGNE RINGSTEAD
10/51 South Down Farmhouse and attached front 26.1.56 walls - II
Detached farmhouse. Early C18. Brick walls in English bond (front elevation), rubblestone remaining walls. Clay tile roofs with stone slate eaves. Brick stacks at gable ends with moulded cornices. 2 storeys and dormers. 5 windows, symmetrical fenestration, sashes with glazing- bars, with segmental heads and flush wood frames. Stone cills, brick arches with burnt headers and keystones. 3 gabled dormers, with 2 light casements, tile roofs, C20. Additions on both gable ends, rubblestone and brick with pentice clay tile roofs. Plank door on right end. Front door at centre, plank door in a wood frame, C19. Brick porch with segmental head, keystone and gabled, tiled roof. Short rear wing, rubblestone and brick quoins, with brick stack at gable end, added C19. Interior: central transverse hall, with a room either side. Ribbed panel window shutters, C19. Attached rubblestone front walls, run for 20 metres by 20 metres. (R.C.H.M. Dorset II, p. 188 (15)).
Listing NGR: SY7572982196
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105940
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 188
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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