Rock House, Including Boundary Wall and Pump
ROCK HOUSE, INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALL AND PUMP, QUEEN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323993
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Rock House, Including Boundary Wall and Pump
- Statutory Address:
- ROCK HOUSE, INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALL AND PUMP, QUEEN STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/15600/18
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323993
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Rock House, Including Boundary Wall and Pump
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROCK HOUSE, INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALL AND PUMP, QUEEN STREET
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:
- ROCK HOUSE, INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALL AND PUMP, QUEEN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Yetminster
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 59330 10830
Details
YETMINSTER ST 5910 QUEEN STREET (West side)
11/164 Rock House, including boundary 31.7.61 wall and pump
GV II
Detached house, c1720, altered in early C19. Rubble stone walls with raised ashlar quoins, tiled roof with coped gables, brick end stacks. 2 storey and attics. L-shaped plan, with a later C19 rear infil block. East elevation, to Queen Street, has a 6-panel raised panel door in open porch with concave pyramidal roof on slender columns. Ground floor has 2 stone mullioned windows - flat mullions, the one left of door with casements with glazing bars, the one right of door with sashes with glazing bars. 2 similar windows on first floor. Small casement in attic gable at right end. Elevation to High Street has, at left end, a 2-storeyed semi-circular bow window, with stone mullions and sashes with vertical glazing bars, moulded cornice and flat roof. Right of this on each floor, a 2-light stone mullioned window with sashes with vertical glazing bars. Pump at rear of house dated 1811. Internally: Ground floor room in south-east corner has large fireplace with C18 surround. Room in north-east corner has plaster cornice with acanthus detail. Several raised panel doors. Door at rear of kitchen in chamfered stone surround. Stone boundary wall along High Street.
Listing NGR: ST5933010830
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 106181
- 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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