Twoleas

TWOLEAS, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1305395
Date first listed:
13-Dec-1984
List Entry Name:
Twoleas
Statutory Address:
TWOLEAS, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1305395
Date first listed:
13-Dec-1984
List Entry Name:
Twoleas
Statutory Address 1:
TWOLEAS, HIGH 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
TWOLEAS, HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Langton Matravers
National Grid Reference:
SY 99972 78975

Details

SY 9978 LANGTON MATRAVERS HIGH STREET (North Side)

6/23 Twoleas

- II

Detached house. Original section early - mid C19, enlarged c1908. Original section has plastered walls, hipped slate roof with wide eaves and shaped brackets. Plastered stacks in centre, with moulded caps. 2 storeys. In Regency style. Main garden, (original entrance) front has a glass-roofed verandah on iron columns with ornamental frieze. Pair of French doors in centre, with semi-circular fanlight. Ground floor has 2 sash windows with glazing bars. First floor has 3 similar windows, the centre one round-headed. At right end, a flat-roofed extension of c1908, with balustraded parapet. Large extension of c1908 at left end, with pebble-dashed walls and part slated, part flat roof. Present entrance in this section. Casement windows with glazing bars. Internally, original section retains moulded architaves and other joinery. Cut string stair with moulded balusters and shaped spandril brackets.

Listing NGR: SY9997278975

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
109034
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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