Hurn Court

HURN COURT

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1324679
Date first listed:
30-Sept-1964
List Entry Name:
Hurn Court
Statutory Address:
HURN COURT
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1324679
Date first listed:
30-Sept-1964
Date of most recent amendment:
12-Feb-1976
List Entry Name:
Hurn Court
Statutory Address 1:
HURN COURT

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
HURN COURT

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

District:
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Hurn
National Grid Reference:
SZ1220395913

Details

HURN
1.
5187 Hurn Court
(formerly listed in the
Rural District of Ringwood
and Fordingbridge)
SZ 19 NW 8/350 30.9.64.

II* GV

2.
A large house of irregular plan and varying dates. Occupies the site of a
mediaeval grange of Christchurch Priory. Earliest visible work belongs to
end of C16 and is an interesting example of early use of brickwork in this
area. House altered 1806 by Garbett of Southampton and again circa 1840.
Plastered walls and chimney stacks. Parapet and slate roofs. Main block,
E shaped, of symmetrical design; coped gables with finials to outer wings.
3 storeys, of which top one added to the 2 storey Elizabethan house in 1840
when an extra west wing also added. Additional attic floor with dormers.
String courses. Outer windows have dripstone moulds and mullions (transom
also at 1st floor) casement windows. 2 storey centre porch with buttresses and
gable. Cartouche in tympanum. Ribbed, Gothic arched, door.
Interior: Ribbed plaster ceilings, some with heraldic devices. Doors with
Gothic panels. Staircase with twisted balusters and carved handrail.

The listed buildings in the Hurn Court grounds, form a group.


Listing NGR: SZ1220395913

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
101525
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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