Charity Farmhouse
CHARITY FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1316511
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Charity Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CHARITY FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1316511
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Charity Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHARITY FARMHOUSE
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:
- CHARITY FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Netherbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SY4980397877
Details
SY49NE
150/7/10000
21.11.97
NETHERBURY
LOSCOMBE
Charity Farmhouse
II
House, formerly a farmhouse. Circa C16, remodelled circa late C17 or early C18. Stone rubble. Thatched and asbestos tile roofs with gabled ends. Stone rubble gable end stacks.
PLAN : 3-room plan house, the low right [SW] room the kitchen with a large gable end fireplace; the left end room also with a gable fireplace was the parlour; the hall at the centre was converted circa late C17 or early C18 into an unheated service room with an axial passage along the front connecting the kitchen and parlour , and with a front doorway into the passage and a winder staircase leading from it. Also in circa late C17 early C18 the house was raised to two storeys and attic. Later single storey extension at SW end.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. Asymmetrical 5-window NW front. C20 2 and 3-light casements; three eyebrow dormers in thatched roof on left. Two doorways with C20 thatched open porches. Single storey stone range on right with rounded corner and thatched hipped roof. C20 casements at rear.
INTERIOR: Parlour on left has deeply chamfered cross-beam with large step-stops, chamfered half-beam and renewed joists; large brick fireplace with moulded bressummer and rebuilt brick jambs. Kitchen on right has very large fireplace with low level hollow-chamfered bressummer with mortices for joists and curved head and mortices for stair doorway. Small unheated central room, behind axial passage, has deeply chamfered half-beam and boarded partitions; winder staircase boxed in corner. Chambers above have boarded partitions and doors. Circa late C17/early C18 4-bay staggered tenoned-purlin roof with halved and lapped collars.
Listing NGR: SY4980397877
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468219
- 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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