Talbothayes Lodge

TALBOTHAYES LODGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1323646
Date first listed:
10-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Talbothayes Lodge
Statutory Address:
TALBOTHAYES LODGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1323646
Date first listed:
10-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Talbothayes Lodge
Statutory Address 1:
TALBOTHAYES LODGE

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
TALBOTHAYES LODGE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
West Stafford
National Grid Reference:
SY 73380 89599

Details

WEST STAFFORD SY 78 NW

11/204 Talbothayes Lodge

- II

Detached house, c1890. Designed by Thomas Hardy for his brother and 2 sisters. Brick walls, hipped slate roof with crested ridge. Plastered stacks with dentil caps, set irregularly. 2 storeys and attic. On main front, a 2-storeyed porch, right of centre, with hipped roof. Raised panel door in round arched opening with solid tympanum. Above this, one sash with glazing bars. Later single storey flat roofed addition left of porch, has one casement with glazing bars. Right of porch, one sash with glazing bars, under segmental arch, on each floor. Left of porch, above the flat roofed addition, one sash with glazing bars at mezzanine level. Left of this one sash with glazing bars under segmental arch,on each floor. At left end, a section set back slightly, has one similar sash on each floor. In attic, one flat roofed dormer with casements with centre horizontal bar. Internally, cut string stair with turned balusters and spandril brackets. At rear of stair hall, round arch in square timber frame with pseudo voussoirs and pilasters. 2 plain round arched openings on upper landing. Included as one of only two known surviving houses by Thomas Hardy.

Listing NGR: SY7338089599

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
106393
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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