ROUND CHIMNEYS FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1324467
Date first listed:: 04-Oct-1960
List Entry Name:: ROUND CHIMNEYS FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: ROUND CHIMNEYS FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1324467
Date first listed:: 04-Oct-1960
List Entry Name:: ROUND CHIMNEYS FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: ROUND CHIMNEYS FARMHOUSE

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:: ROUND CHIMNEYS FARMHOUSE

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Glanvilles Wootton
National Grid Reference:: ST 68190 09457

Details

GLANVILLES WOOTTON ST 60 NE 7/18 Round Chimneys Farmhouse 4.10.60 - II* House, originated c 1590s, probably added to 1632 with extensive alterations and demolitions C19. Coursed rubble and rendered with ashlar dressings, tiled and stone slated,gable ended roofs with round stone stacks to gables and on ridge to left of door. Main range to south west, probably earlier service range to north east. Originally a much larger house of 2 parallel ranges running at right angles to the present ridge with a gabled attic storey. Main range: 2 storeys. Stone mullioned and transomed, ovolo- moulded 2 and 3-light windows with wrought iron casements and leaded lights. Centre right is a smaller 2-light window without transom probably transposed with front door. Door has moulded architrave and stone head. Continuous moulded string course returned over ground floor windows as a label. The service wing has 2 storeys, a 5-light hollow chamfered stone mullioned window with a square returned label on the ground floor and 2 2-light,ovolo- moulded,stone mullioned windows above. To the left is a single-light stair- case window. Right gable has blocked windows and a shallow 4-centred arch, moulded doorway. To the rear is another 4-centred arch,moulded doorway. Catslide roof to rear. Internally, there has been much alteration but there are 2 decorated and moulded round-headed archways with projecting keystones. North side of house taken down during C19. Date of 1632 originally over door and date of 159- on chimney. Once owned by John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough. C W Dale, "Round chimneys","Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquaries Field Club", Vol XXI, 1900, pp 218-222; "RCHM Dorset Vol III", pp 97-98, no 6. Hutchins John, "History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset", Third Ed., 1868, reprint by E.P., 1973, Vol iii, pp 744-745.

Listing NGR: ST6819009457

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Legacy System number:: 102518
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 97-98
Hutchins, J, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, (1868), 744-745
'Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquaries Field Club' in Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquaries Field Club, , Vol. 21, (1900), 218-222

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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.