Fiddleford Mill House
FIDDLEFORD MILL HOUSE, CALF CLOSE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1324484
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Fiddleford Mill House
- Statutory Address:
- FIDDLEFORD MILL HOUSE, CALF CLOSE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1324484
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Fiddleford Mill House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FIDDLEFORD MILL HOUSE, CALF CLOSE LANE
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:
- FIDDLEFORD MILL HOUSE, CALF CLOSE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sturminster Newton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 80082 13580
Details
ST 81 SW STURMINSTER NEWTON CALF CLOSE LANE
5/78 Fiddleford Mill House 4.10.60 G.V. I
Manor House, now 2 houses probably for William Latimer. Late C14 hall and solar with northward extensions to the solar in the C16 and C18 and some C17 remodelling. Coursed rubble, hall roof tiled, solar stone slated and long north range slated with stone slate verges. Gable ends, ashlar dressings. North range of 2 storeys. It has hollow chamfered stone mullioned windows of 1, 2 and 3-lights. Brick stacks at ridge and gable ends of hall. West porch has a 'tudor' arch. Reused carved stonework incorporated in C18 addition. The cusp arch-braced collar-beam roofs with cusped wind braces in the hall and solar are outstanding. Hall has moulded, decorated screens passage doors, and C16 fireplace. The solar has an undercroft with plank and muntin partitions and other early woodwork. The north range has C16 fireplaces a C16 plaster ceiling and stud partitions, together with other C16 and C17 woodwork. Scheduled as an ancient monument. "RHCM, Dorset Vol III" HMSO, 1970, pp 271 - 276, no 4. Newman, J and Pevsner, N "The Buildings of England: Dorset "Penguin, 1972, pp 408 - 9.
Listing NGR: ST8008713570
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 102405
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 271-276
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 408-409
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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