Blackdown House, and Former Dairy Range

BLACKDOWN HOUSE, AND FORMER DAIRY RANGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1324187
Date first listed:
04-Dec-1951
List Entry Name:
Blackdown House, and Former Dairy Range
Statutory Address:
BLACKDOWN HOUSE, AND FORMER DAIRY RANGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1324187
Date first listed:
04-Dec-1951
List Entry Name:
Blackdown House, and Former Dairy Range
Statutory Address 1:
BLACKDOWN HOUSE, AND FORMER DAIRY RANGE

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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
BLACKDOWN HOUSE, AND FORMER DAIRY RANGE

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

District:
Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Broadwindsor
National Grid Reference:
ST 39897 03012

Details

ST 30 SE BROADWINDSOR BLACKDOWN 4-12-1951 3/21 Blackdown House, and former Dairy range

II

Large House in grounds. Late C17, datestone P.M.I. 1697 over south door, with Cl9 rebuilding, and extension of home to west. Dressed stone walls, with slate roofs hipped at right hand end. Cl9 extension is gabled to the south at left hand. One stone stack with cornice, on site of former left hand gable, and rendered stack at right hand eaves. 2 storeys. 5 windows to the original front (C17), south elevation. 2-light stone mullions (ovolos) with C20 metal casements set in with lead lights. Continuous label over ground floor and first floor,each returned. Gabled dormers of 2-lights, hollow-chamfered. Former front door with stone jambs and depressed arch in a square head. Stone pediment over, carried on volute brackets. Door has four fielded panels with a glass light over. Late C19 gabled wing at left hand has a 4-light stone mullion with a high cross-transom and returned label over. First floor, has one of 2-lights. West wall has Pinney crest of 3 cross-crosslets fitché with a gauntleted hand holding another over. Rear of home (present front entrance) of 2½ storeys, irregularly spaced windows of 2- and 4-lights (ovolos) with separate returned labels over. Front vestibule, in angle, C20. Rubble stone with stone jambs to door. Gabled-in brick range with slate roofs to former dairy. One inserted brick stack. Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 54(5).

Listing NGR: ST3989703012

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Legacy System number:
105013
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 54

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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