The Elms
THE ELMS, EAST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324225
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Elms
- Statutory Address:
- THE ELMS, EAST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324225
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Elms
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ELMS, EAST 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:
- THE ELMS, EAST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chickerell
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 64332 80583
Details
SY 68 SW CHICKERELL EAST STREET, WEST SIDE
6/105 The Elms
GV II
Villa in garden. Early C19. Stone walls, stuccoed and with rusticated quoins. South side wall, tile-hung, and brick walls to rear of this. Slate roofs, hipped at left hand and gabled at right hand. C20 brick stack at right hand gable and 2 C19 brick stacks on rear ridge at left hand. 2 storeys. 5 windows, sashes with thin glazing-bars. Stone cills. Two large French windows with marginal glazing- bars to front elevation. Front door at centre, two leaf, with recess panels and 2 upper lights. Small segmental fanlight over. Verandah, cast-iron supports with plant motifs, pentice corrugated plastic roofing. Interior: extensive plasterwork in Hall, Dining Room and Drawing Room. Hall: combination of C17-style motifs and foliage roundels and reticulations. Elliptical arch with reeded pilaster supports. Drawing Room with delicate strapwork plaster ceiling, festoons to cornice rail intertwined with strapwork. North end bedrooms have segmental plaster-ceilings with delicate strapwork and foliage. Plasterwork dados. 6-panel doors with recess panels. The interior plasterwork is remarkable both for its extent and quality. (RCHM Dorset II, p.40 (12)).
Listing NGR: SY6433280583
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105224
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 40
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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