12, Water Street
12, Water Street, Cranborne, BH21 5QB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323462
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- 12, Water Street
- Statutory Address:
- 12, Water Street, Cranborne, BH21 5QB
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323462
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 12, Water Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 12, Water Street, Cranborne, BH21 5QB
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:
- 12, Water Street, Cranborne, BH21 5QB
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cranborne
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 05742 13274
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27/08/2019
SU 0513
11/32
CRANBORNE
WATER STREET
No 12
(formerly listed as No 13, previously listed as House approximately 90 yards east of School)
18.3.55
II
Detached house, dated 1712 with C19 single bay extension to the right. Brickwork, part Flemish-bond and part irregular bond; very narrow bricks. Tiled roofs with gable brick copings and kneelers to ends of original range. Brick stack to right end of original range. First floor plat band. Two storeys, three window range. Nine-pane sashes under flat brick arches. Central plank door with flat hood. Carved stone plaque over door.
Internal features (RCHM): two chamfered beams.
(RCHM, Dorset, vol. I, p.13, no,1)
Listing NGR: SU0574213274
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 107369
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 13
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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