1-5 New Buildings, Including Front Boundary Wall

1-5 NEW BUILDINGS, INCLUDING FRONT BOUNDARY WALL, VALLEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1323407
Date first listed:
29-May-1981
List Entry Name:
1-5 New Buildings, Including Front Boundary Wall
Statutory Address:
1-5 NEW BUILDINGS, INCLUDING FRONT BOUNDARY WALL, VALLEY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1323407
Date first listed:
29-May-1981
List Entry Name:
1-5 New Buildings, Including Front Boundary Wall
Statutory Address 1:
1-5 NEW BUILDINGS, INCLUDING FRONT BOUNDARY WALL, VALLEY ROAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
1-5 NEW BUILDINGS, INCLUDING FRONT BOUNDARY WALL, VALLEY ROAD

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:
SZ0090378798

Details

SZ 0078
7/51
29-5-81

LANGTON MATRAVERS
VALLEY ROAD (South Side)
Nos 1 to 5 (consec.) New Buildings, including front boundary wall

II

Block of 5 cottages. Nos. 1 and 2 now in one occupation. Probably C18.
Rubble stone walls, stone slate roofs, stone stacks along ridge. 2 storeys
No 1 in projecting rear wing at left end, has ledged door. Ground and first
floors each have one casement window with glazing bars. Stone lean-to
extension at left end. No 2 at left end of main range, has ledged door in
temporary porch. Ground floor has 3 casement windows with glazing bars. First
floor has 2 similar windows. Stone lean-to extension at left end has one
metal window. No 3 partly in a projecting wing, has ledged door. In main
range, ground and first floors each have one casement window with glazing
bars. Similar windows in wing . No 4 has ledged door in timber gabled
porch. Ground floor has 2 casement windows with glazing bars, one partly covered
by wing. First floor has a similar window, slightly dormered. No 5 has
ledged door. Ground floor has one casement window with glazing bars and a small
fixed window. First floor has one horizontally sliding sash window, slightly
dormered. Lean-to extension at right end, of matching construction. (Permission
recently granted to rebuild this as a 2-storeyed block). Internally, main
ground floor room has open fireplace with stone lintol. One chamfered ceiling
beam. Dry stone wall to front boundary. Whole block under repair at time of
Survey (1984). RCHM Monument II (Dorset Vol II).

Listing NGR: SZ0090378798

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
109061
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970)

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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