The Old House
THE OLD HOUSE, MILTON-ON-STOUR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324590
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD HOUSE, MILTON-ON-STOUR
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- Date:
- 2001-01-24
- Reference:
- IOE01/00426/33
- Rights:
- © Mr Murray Pearson. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324590
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD HOUSE, MILTON-ON-STOUR
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:
- THE OLD HOUSE, MILTON-ON-STOUR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Gillingham
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 79638 28185
Details
ST 72 NE GILLINGHAM MILTON ON STOUR
2/231 The Old House
- II
House. C17 for Dyrdo family; altered and added to mid C19. Coursed squared stone to main elevations, and rubblestone. Plain tile roofs to main elevations, and Welsh slate. L-shaped plan: 2 storeys and attic; C17 house on east-west axis of 2 bays with lateral entry and 2-storey rear outshut; C19 entrance range added to rear right, when C17 range was refronted, and C19 additions in line to west. East (entrance) front: 3 bays, left 2 narrower and under gable. Plinth, quoins. Central door of 6 raised and fielded panels and overlight with glazing bars in architrave protected by deep porch with cusped fluting to columns, panelled frieze, cornice and blocking course. Windows are double-chamfered, mullioned and transomed, with margin glazing bars and hoodmoulds; of 3 lights flanking door on ground and 1st floors, of 2 lights over door and centrally to gable. Block kneelers, ashlar coping. Steeply pitched roof with shouldered and corniced end stacks to gable and to right end. South (garden) front: right-hand block projects and has plinth; quoins; central C20 board door in cusped-panelled architrave under corbelled pediment with Sun insurance plaque flanked by 3-light windows on each floor as south front; stacks to ends and centre; left return largely masked by addition, but on right a blocked, quoined, C17 doorway with shallow segmental-arched monolithic lintel and on 1st floor one light of a double-chamfered window with hoodmould. On left, C19 additions stepping down have small-pane windows, those of right-hand addition transomed, those of left-hand addition segmental-arched and flanking central door. Further left, C19 outbuilding not of special interest. North front: strap-hinged board door with overlight on right of outshut which has double-chamfered windows with ribbed mullions of 2 and 3 lights to ground floor and two of 2 lights above; C20 dormer to east-west range; north-south range has a 2-light window with hoodmould to ground and attic floors (the former blocked). Interior: C17 range: left-hand ground-floor room has possibly re-used features including panelled wainscot, panelled door on left of fireplace which has roll- moulded, shallow-Tudor-arched stone surround, deep frieze with griffins flanking shield and modillion cornice with acanthus-leaf motif; compartmented ceiling with moulded beams. In attic, collared principal rafter roof trusses with 2 sets of trenched purlins, the morticed collar at left end probably re-used.
Listing NGR: ST7963828185
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103086
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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