Barn 80 Metres South West of Lower Lewell Farmhouse
BARN 80 METRES SOUTH WEST OF LOWER LEWELL FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1323959
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Barn 80 Metres South West of Lower Lewell Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BARN 80 METRES SOUTH WEST OF LOWER LEWELL FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1323959
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Barn 80 Metres South West of Lower Lewell Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARN 80 METRES SOUTH WEST OF LOWER LEWELL 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:
- BARN 80 METRES SOUTH WEST OF LOWER LEWELL FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- West Knighton
- National Grid Reference:
- SY7418189665
Details
SY 78 NW
1788/6/92
26.1.56
WEST KNIGHTON
LOWER LEWELL
Barn 80 metres south west of Lower Lewell Farmhouse
GV
II*
Detached barn. Dated 1704 IR on the north wall of the eastern porch in vitrified headers. Brick walls, with the bay divisions marked by 2 stage buttresses, each bay lit and ventilated by a narrow slit light. Eleven bays. Thatch roof with gable ends. Porches set centrally east porch is gabled with a moulded coping to the gable parapet and has a plain brick label above the doors; the brick work between the label and door head has been rebuilt. 2 leaf plank doors. The west porch has a hipped thatch roof, also with 2 leaf plank doors. Interior: the main roof of eleven bays is carried on collar beam trusses with halved and tenoned joints. There are small braces to the trusses each side of porches. (R.C.H.M. Dorset II, p.158 (7)). Source: (Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England), Inventory of Dorset, 1970, Vol.2, Page(s) 138.
Listing NGR: SY7418189665
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105984
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 138
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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