Duck House Including Garden Wall and Railings
DUCK HOUSE INCLUDING GARDEN WALL AND RAILINGS, SOUTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1304633
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Duck House Including Garden Wall and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- DUCK HOUSE INCLUDING GARDEN WALL AND RAILINGS, SOUTH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1304633
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Duck House Including Garden Wall and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- DUCK HOUSE INCLUDING GARDEN WALL AND RAILINGS, SOUTH STREET
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:
- DUCK HOUSE INCLUDING GARDEN WALL AND RAILINGS, SOUTH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sherborne
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 63971 16381
Details
SOUTH STREET 1. 1625 (North-East Side) Duck House including garden wall and railings ST 6316 1/221 II GV 2. Early to mid C19. High 2 storey 3 window ashlar front at right angles to road. Wide eaves soffit with paired brackets above pilasters. One central dormer. Sash windows to 1st floor. Central round-headed doorway with reeded imposts, fanlight. Ground floor windows are large Venetian sashes set in sunk etched panels. Incised decoration in spandrels. Fluted pilasters strips between lights and fluted archivolt. A wall of rough ashlar and dwarf wall and railings enclose the garden to the south east of the house. A short length of wall is attached to the left angle of the house; beyond it is a gate flanked by a pier; to south-east again is a stone dwarf wall with ashlar coping. Railings have uprights with spear-headed finials and panelled standards at intervals. Probably contemporary with the house.
Nos 1 to 8 (consec), Duck House including garden wall and railings, Gainsborough House including Dwarf wall, railings and gate, outbuilding to south of Gainsborough House, gate piers to the Old Bidewell, The Antique Shop, Lodbourne Hall, Ye Olde Cottage including garden walls and railings form a group.
Listing NGR: ST6397116381
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 104140
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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