Withyhook Farm House
WITHYHOOK FARM HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1304196
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Withyhook Farm House
- Statutory Address:
- WITHYHOOK FARM HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1304196
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Withyhook Farm House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WITHYHOOK FARM HOUSE
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:
- WITHYHOOK FARM HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Leigh
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 60940 06602
Details
LEIGH ST 60 NW -
5/29 Withyhook 11-7-51 Farm House
II
Detached house, incorporating former watermill at right end. Mid - C16, altered in C17 and C18. Rubble stone walls. Slate roof, one brick stack at left end and one right of centre - at end of original house section. 2 storeys. C20 stone porch with lean-to slate roof and C20 ledged door. Right of this 2 other door openings, one at right end of original house, with old ledged door and frame - C17, one into former mill, with C20 part- glazed door - original opening. Also on ground floor, one 4-light timber window with ovolo-moulded mullions and one casement with horizontal glazing bars. Some stone-mullioned windows in rear wing. Internally, left ground floor room has stone fireplace with 4-centred arch. Some chamfered ceiling beams. Right ground floor room of original house has large open fireplace with cambered timber lintel and timber jambs. Newel stair adjoins this. Some chamfered ceiling beams. No mill machinery survives. At right end, a single-storey extension, of stone with slate roof, now used as garage. (RCHM Monument 17. (Dorset, Vol.I). R Machin. "The Houses of Yetminster." University of Bristol. 1978.)
Listing NGR: ST6094006602
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 106047
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1952)
Machin, R, The Houses of Yetminster, (1978)
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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