Crocker's Farmhouse

CROCKER'S FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1324585
Date first listed:
16-Aug-1960
List Entry Name:
Crocker's Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
CROCKER'S FARMHOUSE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1324585
Date first listed:
16-Aug-1960
List Entry Name:
Crocker's Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
CROCKER'S FARMHOUSE

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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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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:
CROCKER'S FARMHOUSE

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

District:
Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Compton Abbas
National Grid Reference:
ST 84638 19685

Details

ST 81 NW COMPTON ABBAS TWYFORD

9/100 Crocker's Farmhouse 16.8.60. GV II

Farmhouse, now divided into 2 dwellings. Dated "TD 1660" over former door. Ashlar with gable-ended concrete pantile roof. End stone copings. Brick stacks at ends and at intersections of 2 wings. L-plan. 2 storeys, 4 irregular window range to main wing. 2, 3 and 4-light chamfered stone- mullioned windows, some containing casements and some leaded-lights. Some are recent replacements. Some have returned labels. Ground floor of the north facade has 3-light casements with glazing bars flanking a central plank door. Main facade has chamfered, 4 centre doorway in second bay from right containing C20 part-glazed door. Opposite at the re-entrant angle is a similar blocked doorway. There is a further C20 copy of this doorway to the south end of the east facade. Further inscription over west window "I.D. 1660". Internal features (RCHM): plank and muntin partitions. (RCHM, Dorset, vol IV, p 14, no 3).

Listing NGR: ST8463819685

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Legacy System number:
102942
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Royal Commission on Historic Monuments; Inventory of Dorset Vol 4, (1972), 14

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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