The Thatched Cottage

THE THATCHED COTTAGE, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1324664
Date first listed:
11-Jun-1985
List Entry Name:
The Thatched Cottage
Statutory Address:
THE THATCHED COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1324664
Date first listed:
11-Jun-1985
List Entry Name:
The Thatched Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
THE THATCHED COTTAGE, MAIN STREET

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:
THE THATCHED COTTAGE, MAIN STREET

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

District:
Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Turnworth
National Grid Reference:
ST 82138 07514

Details

TURNWORTH ST 80 NW MAIN STREET (East side)

4/87 The Thatched Cottage

GV II

Cottage, possibly originally 2 cottages, mid C18 with C19 alterations and partial rebuilding. Banded flint with brick and rubble. Thatched roof with end brick stacks. L-plan. One and a half storeys, 3 window range. Ground floor openings under segmental heads. Casements with glazing bars, of 2 lights above and 3 lights below. Central part-glazed plank door. Internally some chamfered beams are exposed. One of the oldest surviving buildings in the Village. (RCHM, Dorset, vol.III, p.291, no.4.)

Listing NGR: ST8213807514

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103363
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Sources

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Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 291

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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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