WEST END HOUSE. HORSECASTLES HOUSE. INCLUDING RAILINGS AND GATE BEFORE FRONT OF HOUSE AND RAILINGS TO REAR

WEST END HOUSE. HORSECASTLES HOUSE. INCLUDING RAILINGS AND GATE BEFORE FRONT OF HOUSE AND RAILINGS TO REAR, ACREMAN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1324336
Date first listed:: 03-Oct-1973
List Entry Name:: WEST END HOUSE. HORSECASTLES HOUSE. INCLUDING RAILINGS AND GATE BEFORE FRONT OF HOUSE AND RAILINGS TO REAR
Statutory Address:: WEST END HOUSE. HORSECASTLES HOUSE. INCLUDING RAILINGS AND GATE BEFORE FRONT OF HOUSE AND RAILINGS TO REAR, ACREMAN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1324336
Date first listed:: 03-Oct-1973
List Entry Name:: WEST END HOUSE. HORSECASTLES HOUSE. INCLUDING RAILINGS AND GATE BEFORE FRONT OF HOUSE AND RAILINGS TO REAR
Statutory Address 1:: WEST END HOUSE. HORSECASTLES HOUSE. INCLUDING RAILINGS AND GATE BEFORE FRONT OF HOUSE AND RAILINGS TO REAR, ACREMAN STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: WEST END HOUSE. HORSECASTLES HOUSE. INCLUDING RAILINGS AND GATE BEFORE FRONT OF HOUSE AND RAILINGS TO REAR, ACREMAN STREET

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Sherborne
National Grid Reference:: ST6344416779

Details

1. 1625 ST 6316 1/18

ACREMAN STREET (South West Side) West End House. Horsecastles House. Including railings and gate before front of house and railings to rear

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2. Formerly shown as Horsecastles Farm. Stone house of various dates, part of it probably C18 or earlier. 2 storeys front to road has been much altered and has cement-rendering in panel treatment. From right to left hand two 2-light casement windows above and a 3-light sash window below; to left hand again, a 2-light casement above and a sash window below; to left hand again, 2-light casement above round-headed doorway; 6-flush panelled door with top 2 panels glazed, blank tympanum. Blank bay at South end. South gable end is of ashlar arch has windows with moulded stone frames and keystones, that to second floor being round-headed. Front railings have uprights with spiked finials; square standards at intervals with urn finials; front gate has uprights rising to two different heights. Railings enclosing rear of house have uprights looped at the top in pairs; railings extend from north-west corner of house to north corner of south range.

West End House, Horsecastles House, railings and gate to front, rear, wall to south of Horsecastles House, and outbuilding to North-West of Horsecastles House from a group.

Listing NGR: ST6344416779

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Legacy System number:: 103840
Legacy System:: LBS

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