Mappowder Court
MAPPOWDER COURT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1324499
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Mappowder Court
- Statutory Address:
- MAPPOWDER COURT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1324499
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Mappowder Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAPPOWDER COURT
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:
- MAPPOWDER COURT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Mappowder
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 73891 05800
Details
MAPPOWDER MAPPOWDER: ST 70 NW VILLAGE 8/96 Mappowder Court (previously listed as Place Farmhouse) 4.10.60 GV II* Country house, mid C18 but incorporating parts of a C17 structure. Coursed, squared rubble, part rendered, squared rubble dressings. Stone slated roofs with gable ends and stone copings. L-shapedplan. East facade; symmetrical, 2 storeys, 3 bays. Windows appear to be of C17 origin. Ground floor has 2 5-light, stone, mullioned and transomed windows with square heads and hollow chamfers. Central ashlar porch with open pediment and pilasters. Round headed recessed doorway with fanlight. Upper floor has 3 4-light, square headed, mullioned windows with hallow chamfers. Moulded plinth. The other facades also have a number of square-headed stone mullion windows with labels. The west gable has an C18 lunette window. Internally there are a number of fireplaces with 4-centred heads and an C18 staircase with close strings, square balusters, moulded oak hand rails and turned newel posts. (RCHM) "RCHM, Dorset Vol III", P 147, no 3.
Listing NGR: ST7389105800
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 102597
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 147
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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