51 Church Road
51, Church Road, Durweston, DT11 0QA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324598
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 51 Church Road
- Statutory Address:
- 51, Church Road, Durweston, DT11 0QA
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324598
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 51 Church Road
- Statutory Address 1:
- 51, Church Road, Durweston, DT11 0QA
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:
- 51, Church Road, Durweston, DT11 0QA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Durweston
- National Grid Reference:
- ST8582408471
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 31 October 2023 to amend the name, address and reformat the text to current standards
ST 80 NE
6/25
DURWESTON
CHURCH ROAD (South-west side)
No 51
(Formerly listed as No. 52
12-10-70
GV
II
Cottage, C17 with C19/early C20 alterations. Flint, rubble, rendering and timber-framing with stone and brick dressings. Half-hipped, thatched roof. Brick stack to left of centre. One and a half storeys, irregular fenestration. To the left is a C19 sash with vertical glazing-bars to the right of which is a C20 plain window. Central is a four-light stone-mullioned window with hollow-chamfered jambs and mullions and a weathered hood-mould. The outer lights have leaded glazing. Right of range has two-light casement with segmental brick head. Part-glazed plank door right of centre. The upper floor has timber framing with a tension brace exposed to the left. Central is a rebuilt dormer with a C19 six-pane sash. The right gable wall was rebuilt probably early C20 in stretcher bond brickwork after a collapse.
Interior features: deep chamfered ceiling beams, some with cymastops; main room fireplace with chamfered, four-centred, timber bressummer and continuous stone jambs; recess for former newel stair; southern ground floor room has open fireplace; upper floor room has stone four-centred head fireplace bearing C18 graffitti; doorways with pointed heads; many original roof timbers.
(RCHM, Dorset, vol. III, p. 91, no. 4)
Listing NGR: ST8582408471
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103113
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 91
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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