Lower Dairy Farmhouse
LOWER DAIRY FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323909
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Dairy Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER DAIRY FARMHOUSE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14760/27
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323909
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Dairy Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER DAIRY FARMHOUSE
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 DAIRY FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Nether Compton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 59785 17445
Details
NETHER COMPTON ST 5917 NETHER COMPTON VILLAGE 13/61 Lower Dairy Farmhouse 11.7.51 GV II
Former farmhouse, now private dwelling. Dated A 1661 RR, WR, TH on stone in front wall, with C19 and C20 refenestration. Coursed rubble stone walls. Roman-tile roof with gable-ends. Stone gable-copings at right hand gable, and at front gable. Brick stacks at left gable, ridge centre. Right gable stack taken down. Two storeys. 2 windows, to right of front range; which projects at right angles. 3-light casement, leaded, top left. 12 pane and 16 pane sashes with glazing-bars, wood lintels. Front range: 1½ storeys, two 3-light C20 casements with glazing-bars. Rear elevation, has the main door position in C19 extension, altered, C20, at rear. Plank door in wood frame. Interior: flagstone floors. Mid-chamfered ceiling-beams. Open stone fireplace, early C16 reset perhaps, has moulded stone jambes and straight-chamfered Tudor arch head. Single large lintel block, and bowtell- moulded stone cornice over. (RCHM, Dorset I, p 102(8)).
Listing NGR: ST5978517445
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105601
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 102
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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