Greystones

GREYSTONES, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1324005
Date first listed:
08-Oct-1986
List Entry Name:
Greystones
Statutory Address:
GREYSTONES, CHURCH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1324005
Date first listed:
08-Oct-1986
List Entry Name:
Greystones
Statutory Address 1:
GREYSTONES, CHURCH STREET

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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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
GREYSTONES, CHURCH 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 59450 10558

Details

YETMINSTER ST 591011 CHURCH STREET (East side)

11/110 Greystones

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Detached house. Of 3 builds. The left range an early C18 house , possibly incorporating some early C17 work. Centre range added c1920 - in traditional style. Right range, - 2 former outbuildings now part of house, - probably C18. Left range has rubble stone walls, slate roof with coped gables, stone end stacks raised in brick. 2 storeys. Original doorway with moulded surround, blocked to take an oval window. Ground floor has 3 stone mullioned windows with lead lights; - 2 with flat mullions, 1 a C19 replacement with chamfered mullions. First floor has 5 flat mullioned windows with lead lights. Centre block has gable end to road. Rubble stone walls up to first floor level, tile-hanging above, with some fish-scale tiles. Double Roman tiled roof with coped gable. Stone porch with hipped tiled roof, overlapping earlier left range. 4-centred arched opening. Oak ledged door. In gable, ground floor has a stone mullioned window matching those in left range. First floor has one casement with glazing bars. Right range in 2 sections. Left section, now part of house, has rubble stone walls and double Roman tiled roof. Single-storey. One C20 stone mullioned window with hoodmould. Oval window in blocked doorway, and small round window. Right of this a lower range of similar construction, now used as garage. Double garage doors, oak ledged door and one casement with glazing bars. Internally, in left range, 2 ground floor rooms have large open fireplaces with timber lintel and jambs - suggesting early C17 date. Some chamfered ceiling beams. (RCHM Monument 6. Dorset. Vol. I).

Listing NGR: ST5944710561

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Legacy System number:
106128
Legacy System:
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Sources

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Inventory of Dorset, (1952)

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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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