Stangways Hall
STANGWAYS HALL, MARKET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324194
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Stangways Hall
- Statutory Address:
- STANGWAYS HALL, MARKET STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324194
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Stangways Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- STANGWAYS HALL, MARKET STREET
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:
- STANGWAYS HALL, MARKET STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Abbotsbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 57650 85385
Details
SY 5785 ABBOTSBURY MARKET STREET, EAST SIDE
10/47 Stangways Hall
GV II
Village School, now Village Hall. Dated AD 1858 on left hand gable. Abbotsbury and Portesham stone walls, banded. Buttresses with set-offs and aedicules framing the doorways. Plain slate and fish-scale slate roofs, with 2 gables of different sizes to front, the larger at left hand, and a gable-end at right hand. Stone- coped gables with moulded kneelers and finials. Single storey. 4 bays, irregular. Windows, front left hand: 5-light stone mullion with 4-centred heads, 3-light over this and 3 graduated top lights under stilted segmental-pointed heads. Label over stopped. C19 metal casements. Openwork quatrefoil in head of gable. Door with 4-centred head, plank with strap-hinges. Stone framing and 4 lights framing it (bay 2). Bay 3, gabled window of similar design to bay 1, though with 2-centred label over and 2 carved coats-of-arms with pinnacled heads over. Bay 4, door of similar design to bay 2, with 3-rectangular lights over the doorhead. Attached wall for 3 metres at right hand, rubble-stone with central doorway having dressed stone jambs and depressed-arch head. Gabled head projecting above the wall with a cusped pointed trefoil in the face. Finial over. Plank door with strap-hinges, C19. Inscriptions: carved in stone and framing the left hand window: "Shew Me Thy Ways O Lord" and "Teach Me Thy Paths".
Listing NGR: SY5765385387
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105166
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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