Manor Farmhouse With Attached Barn At Rear

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

CHEDINGTON CHEDINGTON VILLAGE ST 40 NE 12.6.53 2/180 Manor Farmhouse with attached barn at rear GV II*

Farmhouse. Dated: Thomas Warren 1634, but with C16 core. Dressed stone walls, with 2 sleeper buttresses. Plain tile roof, with stone gable-copings.

Tile cresting. 3 stone stacks, a left hand gable, backing on to cross- passage, at right hand gable, C17. Plan: Main C16 range, remodelled in C17, with C17 extensions at rear for room, stairwell, and also service-range extended back to abut later barn. 2 storeys. 3-4 windows. 3-, 4- and 5-light stone mullions (ovolos) with separate labels to ground floor. No labels above. Iron casements with leaded lights. Front door, left of centre, into cross-passage. Tudor-arch entrance and moulded jambs. Stone- porch with a pitched stone slate roof, stone gable-coping and ball-finial.

Ogee kneelers. Tudor-arch porch entrance, with moulded jambs. Label over with square stops. Recessed stone tablet, with egg-and-dart surround, and the above inscription. Front door, wood, panelled, cCl9. South wall of porch has a doorway with depressed-arch head. Interior: Moulded ceiling- beams cC16 in right hand end. Remains of C16 plank-and-muntin screen with straight chamfers and tongued stops. Two open fireplaces, one against the cross-passage, one in right hand room. Original kitchen, left hand end, has straight-chamfered ceiling-beams in 6 compartments.

Attached Barn at rear, cC18. Rubble walls. Slate roof with stone gable- copings. Barn door with stone jambs and segmental brick heads.

Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p89(2).

Listing NGR: ST4893605596

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Copyright IoE Mr Ken Venton-Prentice. Source Historic England Archive

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