STABLE YARD IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF MELBURY HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1323936
Date first listed:: 02-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:: STABLE YARD IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF MELBURY HOUSE
Statutory Address:: STABLE YARD IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF MELBURY HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1323936
Date first listed:: 02-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:: STABLE YARD IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF MELBURY HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: STABLE YARD IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF MELBURY HOUSE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: STABLE YARD IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF MELBURY HOUSE

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Melbury Sampford
National Grid Reference:: ST 57584 06023

Details

MELBURY SAMPFORD ST 50 NE MELBURY HOUSE 2/121 Stable Yard immediately north of Melbury House GV I Attached Stable Yard, with west block of former north courtyard. Late C17 west (east) block, with early C19 stable-yard immediately west of this. Ham stone ashlar walls and Westmoreland slate roofs, with gable ends. 3 stacks on ridge. South end truncated, and castellated parapet added by Devey. 2 storeys and attics. 12 bays. Windows are 2-light with Ham stone architraves and cills, and flat stone mullions. Iron casements with lead lights and C20 metal casements with lead lights. Centre 3 bays have a pediment over with an octagonal bellcote. Doorway at centre has an eared architrave, with pulvinated frieze and moulded stone cornice. 2-leaf plank door. Blocked doorway towards south end of front. 4 blocked windows and a blocked doorway towards north end of front. Main stable-yard built behind this front, to west in 1801-2 by J Brettingham. 1 1/2 storeys. Main entrances to yard on north and south sides, to north with a segmental head. Windows are 2-light, cross- transom stone mullions, with cast-iron casements and glazing bars. Inside of north side: window, window, door, window, door, main entrance, window, window, door, window. Inside of south side: door, window, door, window; main entrance; door, door, window, door, door. West side of yard has 3 former carriage entrances, and 2 garage entrances. Plank doors. (RCHM. Dorset I, p.167(2))

Listing NGR: ST5762506050

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Legacy System number:: 105869
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Inventory of Dorset, (1952), 167

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.