Manor Farmhouse and Attached Cottage at Rear
MANOR FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED COTTAGE AT REAR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119280
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Manor Farmhouse and Attached Cottage at Rear
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED COTTAGE AT REAR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119280
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Manor Farmhouse and Attached Cottage at Rear
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED COTTAGE AT REAR
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:
- MANOR FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED COTTAGE AT REAR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Melbury Osmond
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 57414 07702
Details
MELBURY OSMOND MELBURY OSMOND ST 5707 VILLAGE Manor Farmhouse 8/93 and attached cottage at rear 4.12.51 II GV Detached Farmhouse. Early C16, with C19 alterations to rear pitch of roof, and C19 cottage. Coursed rubble-stone walls. Thatch roof, half-hipped at left hand, and hipped at right hand. Slate roofed rear pitch of farmhouse with outshut. C20 brick stacks at ridge, left of centre, C18 stone stack right of centre, backing onto cross-passage. 1 1/2 storeys. 3 windows, 3-light cast-iron casements with glazing-bars to ground floor. 3-light iron casements with lead lights to first floor, in pegged wood frames. These are eyebrow dormers. Front door, right of centre, flush-panelled with 2 top lights, C19. Trelliswork wood porch with cornice over. Attached stabling has rubble-stone wall to east front, west front has a plank door at centre with dressed stone voussoirs, 2-light cast-iron casement beside. Left door over. Interior of farmhouse: central room has C16 cross of ceiling beams in four large compartments, with a hollow-chamfer, roll, and smaller hollow chamfer. Wood boss at the inter- section carved with a Tudor rose, C16. Inner room has a deep-chamfered ceiling- beam, with stepped stops. Open fireplaces not visible. Roof: plastered-over jointed crucks. Cottage immediately to rear (? for dairyman), rubble-stone walls. Thatch roof, hipped. Brick stack at ridge, centre. One storey. Two windows to lane, a 3-light cast-iron casement, and a C20 fixed window. The compartmented ceiling having a central carved boss is an unusual feature. (RCHM. Dorset I, p.160(7))
Listing NGR: ST5741407702
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105841
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1952), 160
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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