Lower Minchington Farmhouse
Lower Minchington Farmhouse, Minchington
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1323495
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Minchington Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- Lower Minchington Farmhouse, Minchington
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1323495
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Minchington Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- Lower Minchington Farmhouse, Minchington
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:
- Lower Minchington Farmhouse, Minchington
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 97022 14554
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 7 September 2023 to correct the grade, remove superfluous source details from text and to reformat the text to current standards
ST 91 SE
5/97
SIXPENNY HANDLEY
MINCHINGTON
Lower Minchington Farmhouse
18.3.55
GV
II*
Farmhouse, c.1600. Flint and rubble, part rendered with ashlar quoins and dressings. Tiled and stone slated roofs with end stone copings and brick stacks. L-plan. Two storeys and attics, three window range. Ground floor has stone moullioned windows with returned labels, of three-lights right and four-lights left. Central door way with chamfered, depressed, four-centred head. Above the door is a small single-light stone window. The upper floor has timber casements with leaded-lights. To the rear is a stair turret in the re-entrant angle. Scullery door has depressed, four-centred head. Some wrought-iron casements with leaded-lights.
Internal features (RCHM): hall divided from cross-passage by reset C17 panelling; original plank and muntin partition with doors to other side of passage; stairs of two periods in the C17 the later having a moulded handrail and turned baluster and the earlier solid oak treads radiating from central newel post; deep stop chamfered beams; plank and muntin partitions; doorways in attic partitions with chamfered four-centred heads.
Listing NGR: ST9702214554
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 107433
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1975), 67
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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