Higher Farmhouse and Attached Garden Wall
HIGHER FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323878
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Farmhouse and Attached Garden Wall
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323878
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Farmhouse and Attached Garden Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL
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:
- HIGHER FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Over Compton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 58828 16886
Details
OVER COMPTON ST 5816-5916 OVER COMPTON VILLAGE 14/99 Higher Farmhouse and attached garden wall GV II
Detached farmhouse, C17. Dated on door lintel "Istas Aedes Restituit Refecit J.R.P.G. A.S. MDCCCXCII", (1892) Repairs. Dressed stone walls. Clay-tile roofs with gable ends and stone gable-copings, moulded kneelers. Ashlar stone stacks at gable ends. Two storeys and attics. 3 windows, ovolo-moulded stone mullions, with straight dripstones over ground floor, 4 light to ground and 3 light to first floor. Wooden casements with glazing-bars. Front doorway at centre with depressed-arch head. Recess- panel and glazed door, late C19. Pitched stone canopy, carried on moulded stone brackets. Attached front garden wall, dressed stone, with coping- stones, ramped up to the central gateway. (RCHM, Dorset I, p 104(5)).
Listing NGR: ST5882816886
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105641
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 104
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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