Rodden House
RODDEN HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1324196
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Rodden House
- Statutory Address:
- RODDEN HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1324196
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Rodden House
- Statutory Address 1:
- RODDEN HOUSE
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:
- RODDEN HOUSE
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 61119 84215
Details
SY 68 SW ABBOTSBURY RODDEN
6/54 Rodden House 26.1.56 GV II*
Large detached House. Early C18. Grey ashlar stone walls, with rusticated quoins. Projecting central bay with rusticated quoins. Central pediment with a wooden modillion cornice. Side walls, at left rubble-stone, at right ashlar. Hipped slate roofs. Brick stack on left rear hip, brick and rusticated stone stack at right hand ridge. 2 storeys with cellars and attics. 3 windows, sashes with thick glazing-bars, moulded stone architraves, projecting dropped keystones, stone cills each with 2 consoles. Front doorway at centre with round-headed architrave, with projecting imposts and keystone. Outer framing of plain pilaster strips with shallow volutes supporting a moulded cornice. Door, flush-panelled at bottom with 6 glass panels over. Semi-circular fanlight with glazing-bars, C18. North side wall has 3-light stone mullions, with hollow chamfers. Rounded labels over the ground floor. 3-light wooden casements over with horizontal glazing-bars. Doorway with projecting stone key at centre. Stone sleeper wall to front garden, with a pair of low rusticated gate-piers with imposts and pyramidal caps. Iron railings on sleeper wall, with an iron gate at centre with spear-finials and urn- finials at the intersections.
Listing NGR: SY6111984215
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105173
- 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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