THE OLD HOUSE
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1304900
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD HOUSE, 1, ABBEY STREET
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD HOUSE, 1, ABBEY STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cerne Abbas
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 66572 01189
Details
ST 6601 CERNE ABBAS ABBEY STREET, (west side)
11/49 No. 1 (The Old House)
26.1.56
GV II*
Attached House. Refronted in early C18, earlier core. Brick
walls, on an ashlar stone plinth, brick plat band and heavy
wooden dentil cornice. Walls painted pink. Slate roofs,
with stone gable-coping at south end. Rebuilt stack at north
end. Two storeys. 4 windows to front, tripartite-sashes with
moulded flush frames and wood cills. 3-light wood casements
to first floor, wood cills. Front door, left of centre, with
recess panels and upper lights, reeded pilaster framing with
plain entablature and dentil cornice, C18. Porch carried on
Roman Doric stone columns, with heavy wooden segmental shell-
hood over, carved with raised shell and mask, C18. Long wing
to rear, with rubble-stone walls and tiled roofs. Brick stack
on rear gable. Two storeys, mixture of 2- and 3-light wood
casements with lead lights, wood cills, C18 wing. Interior:
"one room is lined with early C18 bolection-moulded panelling,
and there is a fireplace and overmantel of similar character
on the first floor. There is also some later C18 panelling
and a staircase of the same period."
(RCHM Dorset I, p80(6))
Listing NGR: ST6656101189
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105374
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 80
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
