6, DURNGATE STREET
6, DURNGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324434
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 6, DURNGATE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 6, DURNGATE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324434
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Mar-2010
- List Entry Name:
- 6, DURNGATE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 6, DURNGATE STREET
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:
- 6, DURNGATE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dorchester
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 69411 90670
Details
738/7/164 DURNGATE STREET 08-MAY-75 (North side) 6 (Formerly listed as: DUMGATE STREET 6)
GV II House, probably C18, predating 1771. The building has undergone some alteration.
MATERIALS: Ridgeway or Portland hammer-dressed stone, with red brick voussoirs. The building has a pitched tile roof brick, with high brick chimney stacks.
PLAN: The current OS map shows the site divided into two parts, the narrower western portion having an extension to the north-west, and the eastern portion having a northern extension with a slight projection to west. Earlier OS maps do not indicate this central division, but instead show the building as rectangular in plan, with a number of small outbuildings to north which may form the core of the present northern extensions. Until 1902 at least, No.s 6 and 7 Durngate Street shared a rear courtyard.
EXTERIOR: The street frontage is two-storeys high, in three-bays. On the first-floor are three segmental-headed windows fitted with casement frames. The front door is set in a plain doorway with segmental-headed brick arch, similar to those over the windows. To the left of the door, an embrasure has been cut for a bay window which is contained within the thickness of the wall. This unusual feature - clearly a later alteration - may be evidence of a former door. The attic is lit by two dormer windows with casements. INTERIOR: Not inspected.
HISTORY: Durngate Street lies at the centre of the town of Dorchester; the site has been occupied since Roman times. Durngate Street is shown as being almost completely built up on both sides in Hutchins's map of 1771; though the street also contains later buildings. No. 6 Durngate Street is thought to pre-date 1771.
REASON FOR DESIGNATION: 6 Durngate Street is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Architectural: Externally, a noteworthy example of a modest, two-storey Dorchester house of the C18 * Group Value: With adjacent listed buildings, and with listed buildings elsewhere in Durngate Street
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 104248
- 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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