Park Farm House and the Flat, Park Farm, With Boundary Wall

PARK FARM HOUSE AND THE FLAT, PARK FARM, WITH BOUNDARY WALL, BLANDFORD ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1324250
Date first listed:
10-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:
Park Farm House and the Flat, Park Farm, With Boundary Wall
Statutory Address:
PARK FARM HOUSE AND THE FLAT, PARK FARM, WITH BOUNDARY WALL, BLANDFORD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1324250
Date first listed:
10-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:
Park Farm House and the Flat, Park Farm, With Boundary Wall
Statutory Address 1:
PARK FARM HOUSE AND THE FLAT, PARK FARM, WITH BOUNDARY WALL, BLANDFORD ROAD

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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:
PARK FARM HOUSE AND THE FLAT, PARK FARM, WITH BOUNDARY WALL, BLANDFORD ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Milton Abbas
National Grid Reference:
ST 80974 02756

Details

MILTON ABBAS ST 80 SW BLANDFORD ROAD (North-east side)

3/76 Park Farm House and The Flat, Park Farm, with boundary wall

GV II

Farmhouse with attached flat - converted from farm outbuildings. House attached to Park Farm Museum (q.v.) on left. House early C18, enlarged early C19. Outbuildings late C18 - early C19. House has walls of flint and cob, thatched roof. One brick stack at right end, one near left end. One storey and attic. In main front, ground floor has 3 casements with glazing bars. Attic has one dormer with casements with cast iron glazing, and one double dormer with casements with glazing bars. In rear wall, a range of bee boles formed in the cob.

Internally, room at left end open to roof - probably former bakehouse, has large open fireplace with bread oven and curing chamber.

The Flat, attached at right angles to house at left end, has brick and flint walls and thatched roof. Single-storey. At end of this range a former granary, 2-storeyed, with lower walls of brick, boarded above, and pyramidal tiled roof. A through-passage, with ledged doors, at junction with the house, gives access to both buildings. Outer elevation to The Flat has one casement with part lead lights and part cast iron glazing, one C20 metal casement, and 2 casements with glazing bars. The former granary has C20 timber windows on both floors. Attached to the granary on north-east, a flint and cob boundary wall with thatched capping enclose the courtyard on south-east. RCHM Monument 19. (Dorset. Vol.III.)

Listing NGR: ST8097402756

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Legacy System number:
103492
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970)

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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