Lower Fifehead Farmhouse
LOWER FIFEHEAD FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324504
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Fifehead Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER FIFEHEAD FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324504
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Fifehead Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER FIFEHEAD FARMHOUSE
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:
- LOWER FIFEHEAD FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Fifehead Neville
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 77288 10408
Details
FIFEHEAD NEVILLE FIFEHEAD ST QUINTIN ST 71 SE 5/8 Lower Fifehead Farmhouse 4.10.60 - II Farmhouse, main range late C16, front wing dated 1739, and C19 extension right. C16 and C17 ranges of coursed rubble, C19 range of brick (Flemish bond). Slate roofs with gable ends and brick stacks to the ends of the earlier ranges. C16 range has a hollow-chamfered stone mullioned window of 4 lights with 4-centred heads in an ogee-moulded surround with a moulded square label to the ground floor right. The upper floor has two similar windows but with cable moulded labels. Another such window occurs on the ground floor, south east front. C20 porch. The C18 wing has C20 casements of metal and wood. 4 panel glazed door. The C19 range has 2-light wooden casements with glazing bars and a C20 porch. "RCHM Dorset Vol III", p 93, no 4. Newman J and Pevsner N, "Buildings of England: Dorset", Penguin, 1972, p 204.
Listing NGR: ST7728810408
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 102508
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 93
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 204
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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