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27 Church Street

27 Church Street, Bridport, DT6 3PS, DT6 3PS

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Overview

House; late C18 or early C19. It was sub-divided by 1962 and reverted to a single dwelling in 1992. Late-C20 and early-C21 alterations. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1324085
Date first listed:: 18-Sep-1975
List Entry Name:: 27 Church Street
Statutory Address:: 27 Church Street, Bridport, DT6 3PS, DT6 3PS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1324085
Date first listed:: 18-Sep-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 10-Oct-2022
List Entry Name:: 27 Church Street
Statutory Address 1:: 27 Church Street, Bridport, DT6 3PS, DT6 3PS

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:: 27 Church Street, Bridport, DT6 3PS, DT6 3PS

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bridport
National Grid Reference:: SY4671592754

Summary

House; late C18 or early C19. It was sub-divided by 1962 and reverted to a single dwelling in 1992. Late-C20 and early-C21 alterations.

Reasons for Designation

27 Church Street in Bridport is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:Architectural interest:

* it is a good example of a late-C18 or early-C19 house which makes the most of its corner site; * the principal elevation is a well-balanced and symmetrically proportioned and retains its fenestration.

Historic interest:

* the building reflects the historical development of this area of Bridport during the late C18 and early C19.

History

The later C18 and C19 was a period of prosperity for Bridport, partly due to a growth in trade with Newfoundland and a switch from manufacturing ropes to nets (Bridport Historic Towns, 2008). It was also a period when parts of the town’s historic core were rebuilt, with new houses built within existing property boundaries or by amalgamating plots. Church Street is located in an area of the town that may have medieval origins. It is shown on the Tithe Map from 1845 but no properties apart from 14 Church Street are depicted, though this may be because none of the buildings were subject to tithes rather than them not being present by this time. Historic Ordnance Survey maps from 1890 to 1929 show a single dwelling on the plot occupied by 27 Church Street, at the junction between this road and Folly Mill Lane, but by 1962 (Epoch 5a Ordnance Survey) it had become two separate houses: 27 Church Street and 14 Folly Mill Lane. In 1975 the two houses were each listed at Grade II, and in 1992 listed building consent was granted for them to be converted back into a single dwelling. External and internal alterations were carried out as part of the conversion.

Details

House; late C18 or early C19. It was sub-divided by 1962 and reverted to a single dwelling in 1992. Late-C20 and early-C21 alterations.

MATERIALS: it is constructed of painted and partly-rendered stone rubble under a hipped slate roof with a brick stack below the ridge. The single-storey additions to the rear are also painted and/or rendered stone rubble with slate roofs.

PLAN: the house is double-depth, and has a roughly-square plan, with two small additions to the rear.

EXTERIOR: the building has two storeys and attics. Its Church Lane elevation is symmetrical, with a central round-headed entrance containing a modern panel door with glazed upper lights and a blind fanlight, flanked by six/six timber sash windows. The two first-floor sash windows are three/six, and there is a rooflight. The sash window in the angled, single bay to the corner are of early-C21 date and match the existing windows of the Church Street elevation. The north elevation facing Folly Mill Lane is of two bays. The left-hand bay has a two-light casement on both the ground and first floors, while the other bay has a former entrance with a modern panelled door (lacking door furniture) and a blind semi-circular fanlight; a late-C20 ground-floor two-light casement with glazing bars; a similar first-floor window and a skylight. The rear elevation is largely masked by the single-storey additions which have late-C20/early-C21 windows and doors.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 104490
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Websites
Bridport Conservation Area Appraisal Revised 2010, accessed 13 July 2022 from https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/documents/35024/288481/Bridport+Conservation+Area+Appraisal+Revised+2010.pdf/53b4f756-822a-c971-65ca-6d66570bc12c#:~:text=1.2%20Bridport%20was%20one%20of,number%20of%20distinct%20character%20areas.
Dorset Historic Towns Project - Bridport, Historic Character Assessment Report, September 2008, Dorset Council, accessed 13 July 2022 from https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/libraries-history-culture/local-history-heritage/historic-towns/bridport-historic-towns-survey

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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.