Nos 1-4 Turners Close and Attached Screen Walls
NOS 1-4 TURNERS CLOSE AND ATTACHED SCREEN WALLS, 1-4, TURNERS CLOSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323929
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Nos 1-4 Turners Close and Attached Screen Walls
- Statutory Address:
- NOS 1-4 TURNERS CLOSE AND ATTACHED SCREEN WALLS, 1-4, TURNERS CLOSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323929
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Nos 1-4 Turners Close and Attached Screen Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- NOS 1-4 TURNERS CLOSE AND ATTACHED SCREEN WALLS, 1-4, TURNERS CLOSE
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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:
- NOS 1-4 TURNERS CLOSE AND ATTACHED SCREEN WALLS, 1-4, TURNERS CLOSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Trent
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 59086 18625
Details
TRENT ST 5818-5918 - 18/174 1, 2, 3, 4 Turner's Close and attached screen walls, 11.7.51 (formerly listed as Almshouses) GV II Two ranges of almshouses. Dated 1846. Coursed rubble-stone walls. Scale-tiled roofs with stone gable-copings and cavetto-moulded kneelers. Two tall octagonal stone stacks to each ridge, octagonal capstones. The two ranges face each other across a small courtyard. One storey. 2 windows, each of two 4-centred lights in a square head with a label over, iron casements with lozenge-leading. The doors are situated laterally towards the end of each range, straight-chamfered jambs and depressed arch in a square head. Returned label over. Plank doors, studded and with strap-hinges, C19. There is a short rear wing to each dwelling, C19. The east and west sides of the courtyard are closed by screen walls, each with a central gateway with 4-centred head and moulded coping above. In the north-west gable is an inscription panel only partly legible, "(Bui)l(t) (an)d Endowed in the Year of Our Lord 1846". Built under the patronage and endowment of the Rev. and Mrs Turner of Trent. (RCHM, Dorset I, p 256(4)).
Listing NGR: ST5908618625
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105715
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 256
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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