British Legion House Including Boundary Wall and Railings
BRITISH LEGION HOUSE INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS, EAST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323476
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- British Legion House Including Boundary Wall and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- BRITISH LEGION HOUSE INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS, EAST STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323476
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- British Legion House Including Boundary Wall and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRITISH LEGION HOUSE INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS, EAST 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.
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:
- BRITISH LEGION HOUSE INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS, EAST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Corfe Castle
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 96200 81843
Details
CORFE CASTLE EAST STREET (West side) SY 96 81 8/65 British Legion House (formerly 20.11.59 listed as Old School) including boundary wall and railings GV II Former school, now British Legion Hall. Dated 1834, extended to rear before 1850. Rubblestone walls, slate roof with ornamental bargeboards. Brick stack at left end of main block. Original building of L-shaped plan, with projecting wing at right end. 2 storeys. In the wing, battened door under slightly cambered stone lintol. Date stone above this. On first floor, one casement with cast iron lattice glazing under slightly cambered stone lintol. Single-storey lean-to on left side of the wing. In main range, ledged door. Ground floor has one sash with glazing bars. First floor has 2 similar sashes. Main front boundary wall of rubble stone, with cock and hen coping. Right of this, iron railings with shaped tops and scroll brackets to gate posts (gates missing). (RCHM, Monument 12. Dorset. Vol. II).
Listing NGR: SY9620081843
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109217
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (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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