The Old House Cerne Abbas, England

Listed Building Data

The Old House has been designated a Grade II* listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.

List Entry ID
1304900
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
II*
Date Listed
26 January 1956
Name
THE OLD HOUSE
Location
THE OLD HOUSE, 1, ABBEY STREET
Parish
Cerne Abbas
District
West Dorset
County
Dorset
Grid Reference
ST 66572 01189
Easting
366571.5000
Northing
101188.8460

Listed Building Description

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ST 6601 CERNE ABBAS ABBEY STREET, (west side)

11/49 No. 1 (The Old House) 26.1.56 GV II*

Attached House. Refronted in early C18, earlier core. Brick walls, on an ashlar stone plinth, brick plat band and heavy wooden dentil cornice. Walls painted pink. Slate roofs, with stone gable-coping at south end. Rebuilt stack at north end. Two storeys. 4 windows to front, tripartite-sashes with moulded flush frames and wood cills. 3-light wood casements to first floor, wood cills. Front door, left of centre, with recess panels and upper lights, reeded pilaster framing with plain entablature and dentil cornice, C18. Porch carried on Roman Doric stone columns, with heavy wooden segmental shell- hood over, carved with raised shell and mask, C18. Long wing to rear, with rubble-stone walls and tiled roofs. Brick stack on rear gable. Two storeys, mixture of 2- and 3-light wood casements with lead lights, wood cills, C18 wing. Interior: "one room is lined with early C18 bolection-moulded panelling, and there is a fireplace and overmantel of similar character on the first floor. There is also some later C18 panelling and a staircase of the same period."

(RCHM Dorset I, p80(6))

Listing NGR: ST6656101189