Silk Hay, Fernwood and 23, High Street

23, High Street, Stalbridge, Sturminster Newton, DT10 2LH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1324454
Date first listed:: 20-Oct-1983
List Entry Name:: Silk Hay, Fernwood and 23, High Street
Statutory Address:: 23, High Street, Stalbridge, Sturminster Newton, DT10 2LH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1324454
Date first listed:: 20-Oct-1983
Date of most recent amendment:: 29-Oct-2001
List Entry Name:: Silk Hay, Fernwood and 23, High Street
Statutory Address 1:: 23, High Street, Stalbridge, Sturminster Newton, DT10 2LH
Statutory Address 2:: Fernwood, High Street, Stalbridge, Sturminster Newton, DT10 2LH
Statutory Address 3:: Silk Hay, High Street, Stalbridge, Sturminster Newton, DT10 2LH

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

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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:: 23, High Street, Stalbridge, Sturminster Newton, DT10 2LH
Statutory Address:: Fernwood, High Street, Stalbridge, Sturminster Newton, DT10 2LH
Statutory Address:: Silk Hay, High Street, Stalbridge, Sturminster Newton, DT10 2LH

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Stalbridge
National Grid Reference:: ST 73497 17915

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 06/03/2018

ST 7317 7/37

STALBRIDGE HIGH STREET (WEST SIDE) Silk Hay, Fernwood and No 23

(Formerly listed as Silk Hay, Fernwood and Manchester House)

20-OCT-83

II House, now three houses and store. C15 with C16 projecting wing and various later modifications and alterations. Coursed rubble walls with stone slate half-hipped and gable ended roofs.

Main range runs parallel to, but set back from, the High Street. This range may have replaced an earlier range in the C15 or early C16. A C16 wing with its gable facing the High Street forms an 'L' with the main range. This may have been either a parlour with a chamber above or a shop. To the rear is another wing, now a store, which may have been a medieval kitchen. Victorian wing projecting on right occupied by No. 23 High Street. Two storey facade partially obscured by C19 building on right [No. 23 High Street.]. Variety of C19 and C20 casement and sash windows.

Fernwood has wide door under a flat arch. Silk Hay present a half-hipped gable to the road. This has a C19 shop front with central door and two-light sash window above. Internally Silk Hay retains one C15 arch-braced collar truss with arch-braced purlins. The C16 wing towards the street has the remains of an arch-braced, moulded roof-truss and has a ceiling of moulded intersecting beams. In the south side wall of the front room of Silk Hay some re-used Medieval masonry with Medieval graffiti, including a knight in armour. There is a massive stone chimney stack at the intersection between this range and the main range. The rear wing has a soot blackened truss and may be the kitchen wing of an earlier hall. Fernwood has a ceiling of intersecting deep chamfered beams.

Listing NGR: ST7349617918

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Legacy System number:: 102351
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 250 no 6
Townsend, H, Cunnington, P, notes by Laithwaite, M, 'Period Home' in 2, Silk Hay, , Vol. 5, ()

Legal

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