Bainly House

BAINLY HOUSE, BAINLY

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1324547
Date first listed:
03-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:
Bainly House
Statutory Address:
BAINLY HOUSE, BAINLY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1324547
Date first listed:
03-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:
Bainly House
Statutory Address 1:
BAINLY HOUSE, BAINLY

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BAINLY HOUSE, BAINLY

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

District:
Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Gillingham
National Grid Reference:
ST7679827438

Details

ST 72 NE GILLINGHAM BAINLY

2/108 Bainly House
(Partly in the
County of Somerset)

- II

House, mid C18. Coursed rubble and ashlar with ashlar dressings. Gable-
ended slate roof, with sprocketted eaves, and end stone copings. End
brick stacks. Ashlar plat-bands at basement and first floor levels.
Rusticated quoins. Symmetrical. 2 storeys with attic and basement.
3 bay. 1:1:1. Central bay projects slightly. 16-pane sashes with
moulded stone architraves. Upper floor central has a Venetian window.
Central doorcase has broken triangular pediment supported on fluted
pilasters. Radiating semi-circular fanlight over door. The house
retains the overall form characteristic of a C17 house whilst incorporating
Palladian detailing. This building straddles the Dorset/Somerset border.
(RCHM Dorset, vol IV, p 33, no 60. Newman J and Pevsner N, The Buildings
of England: Dorset, Penguin, 1972, p 216).


Listing NGR: ST7679827438

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
102950
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Royal Commission on Historic Monuments; Inventory of Dorset Vol 4, (1972), 33
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 216

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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