Holway Farmhouse
HOLWAY FARMHOUSE, HOLWAY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1304977
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Holway Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HOLWAY FARMHOUSE, HOLWAY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1304977
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Holway Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOLWAY FARMHOUSE, HOLWAY LANE
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:
- HOLWAY FARMHOUSE, HOLWAY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cattistock
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 58604 01094
Details
ST 50 SE CATTISTOCK HOLWAY LANE
3/29 Holway Farmhouse 26.1.56 GV II*
Manor Farmhouse. Early C17 L-plan house, extended in later C17 to a rectangular double-depth plan. Coursed rubble-stone plinth, ashlar Ham stone walls. Hipped slate roofs. Brick stacks, rebuilt, left and right of centre behind front ridge, and on rear gable. 2 storeys. 4 windows (ground floor), 2 windows to first floor, all 3-light hollow chamfered stone mullions with integral chamfered cills, C20 metal casements. Continuous string over ground floor windows. Ham stone porch at centre, with Roman clay tile roof and stone gable-coping carried on moulded kneelers. Doorway has moulded jambs and depressed-arch head, plank-and-muntin door studded. North elevation has large 2-light wooden casements. South elevation, rendered has 4-light (ground) and 3-light stone mullion windows. Over back doorway 2 stone shields, one with lion rampart, the other with I and a bird. Interior: central hall passage leading to mainly C17 wooden staircase, with heavy turned balusters and moulded rail. Fire- places: stone with moulded jambs and depressed arch head of stone, in south-east and south-west rooms, ground and first floors. Upstairs south-west has a plaster overmantel with 2 sea- monsters to left and right, and central grotesque mask grinning and with collarette. South-east room, with compartmented ceiling in C17 plasterwork, vine-scroll ornament to main beams and ribbed squares and semi-circles in the compartments, with stalked palmettes.
(RCHM Dorset I, p72(4)).
Listing NGR: ST5860401094
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105354
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 72
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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