Vicarage
VICARAGE, ABBEY CLOSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324311
- Date first listed:
- 28-Nov-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Vicarage
- Statutory Address:
- VICARAGE, ABBEY CLOSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324311
- Date first listed:
- 28-Nov-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Vicarage
- Statutory Address 1:
- VICARAGE, ABBEY CLOSE
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:
- VICARAGE, ABBEY CLOSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sherborne
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 63711 16458
Details
ABBEY CLOSE 1. 1625 Vicarage ST 6316 1/12A 28.11.50. II GV 2. 1878; built further back on the same site as the medieval vicarage which was demolished in that year, said to incorporate same medieval remains. 2 storeys and attic. 3 windows bays. Plain tile roof. Ashlar front. Stone-mullioned windows. Left hand bay has 3-light transomed window to first floor with gable over first floor; larger 3-light similar window to ground floor. Large gable over centre and right hand bays. Attic window with dripmould. Centre bay has 2-light perpendicular style windows on first floor, and, on ground floor, porch with four-centred headed doorway. Door of 6 panels with 3 longitudinal glazed panels in upper part. To right hand bay, 4-light transomed window with dripstone; larger window of same style below this on ground floor.
All the listed buildings in Abbey Close form a group with the east end of No 1 Finger Lane.
Listing NGR: ST6370816459
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103820
- 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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