Gatehouse and South Courtyard Walls to Cranborne Manor House
GATEHOUSE AND SOUTH COURTYARD WALLS TO CRANBORNE MANOR HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1304268
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse and South Courtyard Walls to Cranborne Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- GATEHOUSE AND SOUTH COURTYARD WALLS TO CRANBORNE MANOR HOUSE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/06367/12
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1304268
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse and South Courtyard Walls to Cranborne Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEHOUSE AND SOUTH COURTYARD WALLS TO CRANBORNE MANOR 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:
- GATEHOUSE AND SOUTH COURTYARD WALLS TO CRANBORNE MANOR HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cranborne
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 05314 13182
Details
CRANBORNE SU 0513
11/3 Gatehouse and south courtyard walls to 18.3.55 Cranborne Manor House
GV II*
Walls and gatehouse enclosing a courtyard, early C17 with various subsequent alterations. Walls in English bond brickwork with tiled coping. Gatehouse in English-bond brickwork with pyramidal roofs with stone-slate margins. It consists of a central gateway flanked by 2 small, 2 storey lodges set diagonally The gateway is of ashlar and has a moulded, semi-circular arch above which are 2 brick merlons. The lodges have square headed stone-mullioned windows with returned labels. (RCHM, Dorset, vol. V, P.11, No.4. Newman, J and Pevsner N. The Buildings of England: Dorset, 1972, p.174)
Listing NGR: SU0530813183
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 107340
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1975), 11
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 174
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 12 Dorset,
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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