Priory Cottage and Meadow Cottage
MEADOW COTTAGE, 12, WEST HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324020
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Cottage and Meadow Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- MEADOW COTTAGE, 12, WEST HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324020
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Cottage and Meadow Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- MEADOW COTTAGE, 12, WEST HILL
- Statutory Address 2:
- PRIORY COTTAGE, 11, WEST HILL
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:
- MEADOW COTTAGE, 12, WEST HILL
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORY COTTAGE, 11, WEST HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Charminster
- National Grid Reference:
- SY6783492631
Details
SY 6792
13/30
26.1.56
CHARMINSTER
WEST HILL (South Side)
Nos. 11 and 12 (Priory Cottage and Meadow Cottage
(formerly listed as Range of 3 Houses 130 yds S.E of School)
GV
II
Formerly one farmhouse, now two attached cottages. Late C16 with C18, C19,
and C20 alterations to fenestration, and walling. Knapped flint and banded
stone walls and brickwork raising the eaves. Thatch roof with gable ends.
C20. Brick stacks at east end gable and at ridge centre, and at right party
wall with West Hill Cottage. 1½ storeys (Priory) and 2 storeys (Meadow). 3
windows and 2 windows. Fenestration, Priory: 3-light C19 wood casement;
door, 4-light stone mullion window with iron casements and fixed lead
lights. Label. Upper floor has 3 eyebrow dormers, two 2-light C20 metal
casements; one 4-light wood casement. Meadow: (door) 4-light stone mullion
window with iron casements and lead lights. Label over. First floor has
3-light and 4-light C20 wood casements. Front doors: Priory has a plank
door with strap hinges, glass light. Meadow plank door left, with wood
lintel over. Interior: much altered. Meadow has a large hall with a small
early C19 dog-leg stair with Roman Doric newel. Right hand room, formerly
larger before sub-division by hall, fireplace has brick jambs and segmental
brick head. Mid chamfered ceiling beams. (RCHM Dorset III p70(12))
Listing NGR: SY6783492631
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 106218
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 70
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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