Rawston Farmhouse
RAWSTON FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1324322
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Rawston Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- RAWSTON FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1324322
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Rawston Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAWSTON FARMHOUSE
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:
- RAWSTON FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Tarrant Rawston
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 93871 06663
Details
TARRANT RAWSTON ST 90 NW - 3/52 Rawston Farmhouse 26.6.53 GV II*
Detached farmhouse. Late C16 or early C17 central range with C18 east range and C19 west range. Early range of chequered flint and rubble with ashlar dressing. Other ranges in brick, of Flemish bond to the main east front and of English-bond elsewhere. Tiled roofs with end brick stacks. Main facade: symmetrical, 2 storeys and attics, 5 bay. Greensand ashlar rusticated quoins. Central bay flanked by greensand ashlar pilaster strips. 4-pane C19 sashes under segmental brick arches with stone keystones. 2 narrow single light sashes flank the central doorcase. C20 rusticated brick and concrete porch partially obscuring C18 ashlar pedimented and dentilled architrave. 8-panel door. Early range has two 4-light stone mullioned windows with returned labels, that to the upper floor having ovolo-moulded mullions and that to the lower floor having chamfered mullions.
Internal features (RCHM): C17 panelling in original range; east range has staircase with close strings and turned balusters. (RCHM, Dorset, vol.IV, p.lll, no.2. Newman, J and Pevsner, N. The Buildings of England: Dorset, 1972, p.419.)
Listing NGR: ST9387106663
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103772
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Royal Commission on Historic Monuments; Inventory of Dorset Vol 4, (1972), 111
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 419
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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