Giant View is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1985. Former workhouse, flats. 4 related planning applications.

Giant View

WRENN ID
rooted-newel-shade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Country
England
Date first listed
19 November 1985
Type
Former workhouse, flats
Source
Historic England listing

Description

ST 6601 CERNE ABBAS ACREMAN STREET, (west side)

11/56 Giant View

GV II

Former Union Workhouse, now private flats. 1836 and 1841. Rendered walls with hipped slate roofs. Brick stacks on 2 projecting wings and on the front range. Cross-plan of ranges with outhouses at ends of front range. 3 storeys. 4 windows, to front and to street, 2-light cast-iron casements, wood cills. Doorway at centre, 2-leaf and panelled, C19. North and south wings also of 3 storeys, 5 windows long. Rear wing. Two outbuildings to front, rubble-stone, painted, and with hipped slate roofs.

(Dorset Workhouses, pl5-16 Dorset Countryside Treasures 1980)

Listing NGR: ST6615201697

Detailed Attributes

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