Higher Holt Farmhouse
HIGHER HOLT FARMHOUSE, HOLT LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323913
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Holt Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER HOLT FARMHOUSE, HOLT LANE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05603/02
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323913
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Holt Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER HOLT FARMHOUSE, HOLT LANE
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 HOLT FARMHOUSE, HOLT LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Melbury Osmond
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 56699 08864
Details
MELBURY OSMOND ST 50 NE HOLT LANE 2/89 Higher Holt Farmhouse GV II Farmhouse, with attached farm buildings at right angles. Late C18, with C19 refenestration. Rendered stone wall. Thatch roofs, half-hipped. Brick stack on west ridge at centre. 2 storeys and attics. 2 windows to south elevation, 3-light cast-iron casements with glazing-bars, C19. Front door at centre, plank with one top light, C20. Porch, with gabled slate roof, C20. Windows on return elevation, 2 lights casements. Attached stables and barn in one range down slope, rubble-stone walls, thatch roof. Two storeys. Openings: 2 plank doors, left of centre to stabling with one loft door over. Stable-door 'rear' entrance to barn. 2 loft doors to barn. East side of barn has a projecting porch with hipped slate roof and 2-leaf plank doors. (RCHM. Dorset I, p.161 (22))
Listing NGR: ST5669908864
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105837
- 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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