Milton Pound, Westcott Road, Dorking
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1413953
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-2013
- List Entry Name:
- Milton Pound, Westcott Road, Dorking
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1413953
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-2013
- List Entry Name:
- Milton Pound, Westcott Road, Dorking
- Location Description:
- Pound on north side of Westcott Road, west of Dorking town centre, adjacent to turning into Milton Court Lane.
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Mole Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ1579349259
Summary
Animal pound, probably early C19.
Reasons for Designation
Milton Pound is listed for the following principal reasons:
* Intactness: this animal pound retains all four walls and the original coping. Although the original gate does not survive, few pounds retain original gates;
* Rarity of building type: most villages and market towns would have had a pound but many have been lost and only about 200 examples are listed in England;
* Historic interest: an example of a rural building type for the securing of stray animals which are no longer being built and are therefore evidence of past rural history.
History
This animal pound served the Manor of Milton outside Dorking. It is shown on the First Edition 25 inch Ordnance Survey map of 1870 as a pound. The Victoria County History of Surrey, Volume 3, published 1911 states that at that date Milton Gore still retained an area of unenclosed heath.
Details
DATE: an animal pound, probably of early C19 date, the east side restored or re-pointed in the C20.
MATERIALS: it is built of local stone in random rubble, mainly with ironstone galleting and has red brick quoins and coping.
PLAN: it is square on plan with a central entrance on the east side.
DESCRIPTION: the walls are about five feet high and each side is about 12 feet in length with a curved brick coping.
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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