Castle Hill House (Maternity Annexe to Westminster Memorial Hospital)
CASTLE HILL HOUSE (MATERNITY ANNEXE TO WESTMINSTER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL), BIMPORT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324764
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Hill House (Maternity Annexe to Westminster Memorial Hospital)
- Statutory Address:
- CASTLE HILL HOUSE (MATERNITY ANNEXE TO WESTMINSTER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL), BIMPORT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324764
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Hill House (Maternity Annexe to Westminster Memorial Hospital)
- Statutory Address 1:
- CASTLE HILL HOUSE (MATERNITY ANNEXE TO WESTMINSTER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL), BIMPORT
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:
- CASTLE HILL HOUSE (MATERNITY ANNEXE TO WESTMINSTER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL), BIMPORT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shaftesbury
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 86010 22951
Details
1. 1615 BIMPORT (North-West Side) Castle Hill House (Maternity Annexe to Westminster Memorial Hospital) ST 8622 2/24 II 2. Late C18 house in own grounds. Main front at right angles to road. Rough ashlar walls, cornice, parapet. Additions at back. Main front is 2-storey, 3-window, the 1st floor windows being sashes with stone architraves and projecting keys. Flanking doorway on ground floor are Venetian windows with strip pilasters between lights and dentil entablatures. Round heads to side lights and moulded archivolts to central lights. Good doorway with segmental dentil hood supported on enriched console brackets. Frieze has swag-and-vase enrichment of "Adam" type. Flight of steps leads up to doorway; 6 steps flanked by iron handrails terminating at base in scrolls.
Listing NGR: ST8601022951
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 101979
- 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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