West Hembury Farmhouse
WEST HEMBURY FARMHOUSE, HEMBURY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324189
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- West Hembury Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WEST HEMBURY FARMHOUSE, HEMBURY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324189
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- West Hembury Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEST HEMBURY FARMHOUSE, HEMBURY LANE
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:
- WEST HEMBURY FARMHOUSE, HEMBURY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Askerswell
- National Grid Reference:
- SY5245093066
Details
SY 59 SW
3/1
ASKERSWELL
HEMBURY LANE
West Hembury Farmhouse
II
Detached Farmhouse. Dated G B 1749 with C20 alterations. Coursed
rubble stone walls with large stone quoins. Thatch roof with stone
gable-copings and scrolled kneelers. Brick stacks at each gable
and at 'rear' wing gable. T-plan house, as built. South elevation:
2 storeys. 4 windows, 3-light wooden casements with horizontal
glazing-bars. No cills. One C20 3-light hardwood casement. Door
at centre, C20 metal. One C20 metal door in 'rear' angle. One
blocked oculus on rear gable end.
RCHM Dorset I, p 13 (9).
Listing NGR: SY5245093066
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105021
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1952), 13
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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