Gulliver House

GULLIVER HOUSE, 45, WEST BOROUGH

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1323803
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:
Gulliver House
Statutory Address:
GULLIVER HOUSE, 45, WEST BOROUGH
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1323803
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1952
Date of most recent amendment:
02-Feb-1983
List Entry Name:
Gulliver House
Statutory Address 1:
GULLIVER HOUSE, 45, WEST BOROUGH

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:
GULLIVER HOUSE, 45, WEST BOROUGH

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

District:
Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Wimborne Minster
National Grid Reference:
SU 00883 00297

Details

WEST BOROUGH 1. 5193 (west side) No 45 (Gulliver House) (formerly listed as No 21) SU 0000 SE 2/149 14.6:52 II GV 2. Late C18. Brick walls, brick dentil cornice at eaves. Tiled roof. Brick stacks. Two storeys. Two storeyed wing at rear appears contemporary with the main building. Central entrance door, with fanlight with "Gothic" style glazing. Broken pedimented hood on console brackets and moulded pilasters. Ground floor has 2 double hung sash windows with segmental heads and glazing bars. First floor has 3 similar windows.. Brick garden wall extends north from No 45 and along School Lane. In School Lane, a brick coach house has brick walls and a tiled roof. One storey and attic. Built- up opening to School Lane, and one dormer, now boarded up. Probably contemporary with the house. Interior of house retains some raised panel doors, and moulded cornices. See also No 43. RCHM Monument 73.

Listing NGR: SU0088300297

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Legacy System number:
107173
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1975)

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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