Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387295
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Thorn
- Statutory Address:
- THORN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387295
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Thorn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THORN
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:
- THORN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wootton Fitzpaine
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 35788 95520
Details
SV 39 NE WOOTTON FITZPAINE
Thorn
lO4/2/10007
II
House. C16; possibly with earlier origins; altered circa late C19. Stone rubble. Clay Bridgwater tile roof with gabled ends. Brick gable-end stack. PLAN: 3-room plan; right-hand [N] room at the high end is a circa C19 addition. Between the lower left-hand end room and the centre room is a through-passage; the lower left room is heated from a large gable-end stack with an oven and has a winder staircase against the stack; the room on the higher right-hand side of the through-passage is unheated and divided axially by a timber partition. There are attic rooms. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical widely spaced 2-window east front with C20 replacement windows in small openings and central doorway. The north gable end wall and outshut at the rear have collapsed. Rear [W] elevation has circa late C17 wooden 3-light chamfered mullion window on left with carpenter's mitres [one mullion is missing]. INTERIOR: lower left room has deeply chamfered cross-beam and boarded over joists, large gable-end fireplace with timber bressumer and ovens. Plank-and-muntin screen on low side of cross-passage. Higher right-hand room has remains of axial partition with doorway with shouldered head. Roof structure replaced, but the post of a side-pegged jointed cruck truss remains at the rear of the lower end.
Listing NGR: SY3578895520
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475241
- 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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