Magnolia House
MAGNOLIA HOUSE, 131 AND 133, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323606
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Magnolia House
- Statutory Address:
- MAGNOLIA HOUSE, 131 AND 133, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323606
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jun-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Mar-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Magnolia House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAGNOLIA HOUSE, 131 AND 133, HIGH 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:
- MAGNOLIA HOUSE, 131 AND 133, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Swanage
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 02759 78677
Details
HIGH STREET 1. 5190 (south side) Nos 131 and 133 (Magnolia House) (formerly listed as No 133) - and former stables and coach house adjoining south to 131 SZ 0278 NE 5/94 26.6.52 and gate piers and garden boundary wall to North East GV II
2. Now 2 houses. C18, possibly on the site of an earlier building. Purbeck Stone walls and roof. Brick stacks. A large house, at right angles to the High Street. Main elevation from east. U-shaped plan with projecting wings at each end of a recessed central section. Two storeys, plus attics and basement. The projecting wings have half-hipped gables, and each has a 3-storey canted bay window, with stone mullions and double-hung sashes, extending into the gable. In the centre section are now 2 entrance doors, at ground floor level, approached from a raised landing - above the basement. This has a canopy on timber columns, with corrugated plastic roofing, probably replacing glass. Double-hung sash windows with glazing bars, to ground and first floors. Elevation to High Street has 2 storeys, with attics and basement. Ground floor has 2 double-hung sash windows with glazing bars. First floor has 3 similar windows - one now blocked. Two dormers to attic with hipped roof. The interior retains several original panelled doors, and No 133 has a cut-string stair- case with simple balusters and a carved wreathed handrail. South of No 131, the former stables and coach house has Purbeck Stone walls and a modern pantiled roof. Stone wall and gate piers to High Street, with modern iron gates. A good house, important in the street.
Listing NGR: SZ0275978677
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 108220
- 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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