23 and 24, West Street

23 and 24, West Street, Abbotsbury, DT3 4JT

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1324228
Date first listed:
26-Jan-1956
List Entry Name:
23 and 24, West Street
Statutory Address:
23 and 24, West Street, Abbotsbury, DT3 4JT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1324228
Date first listed:
26-Jan-1956
Date of most recent amendment:
20-May-1985
List Entry Name:
23 and 24, West Street
Statutory Address 1:
23 and 24, West Street, Abbotsbury, DT3 4JT

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
23 and 24, West Street, Abbotsbury, DT3 4JT

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 57138 85363

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26/03/2018

SY 5785
10/24

ABBOTSBURY
WEST STREET
Nos. 23 and 24

(Formerly listed as Nos 23 and 24 COWARD'S LANE, previously listed as pair of cottages on east corner of Cowards Lane)

26.1.56

GV
II
Two attached cottages. C18 with C20 refenestration. Shallow rubble-stone walls. Thatch roof, with gable end to street. C19 brick stacks at right hand gable, and at former gable end, now ridge. One and a half storeys, two windows and two further C20 windows in the attached north range. Two-light wooden casements C20 (No.23). Same with glazing-bars (No.24). Very small rectangular light right of main window. Two single light casements with glazing bars on gable end. C20.

Front doors: No.23, plank, C20 with a shallow wooden porch, with gabled canopy. No.24: plank, C19, with a single light, wooden lintel over.

Listing NGR: SY5713985366

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Legacy System number:
105143
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 9

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of 23 and 24, West Street

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