Home Farm House
HOME FARM HOUSE, HIGHER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1171734
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Home Farm House
- Statutory Address:
- HOME FARM HOUSE, HIGHER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1171734
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Home Farm House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOME FARM HOUSE, HIGHER STREET
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:
- HOME FARM HOUSE, HIGHER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Morden
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 91643 95570
Details
SY 99 NW MORDEN HIGHER STREET, SOUTH SIDE
3/147 Home Farm House 24/3/71 (Formerly listed as East GV Morden Farmhouse) II* Attached house. Late C16 origin, altered in C18 and C19. Walls originally of ironstone rubble, part refaced in brick in C18 and raised in brick in C19. Slate roof. Brick end and central stacks - the central stack with recessed panels. 2 storeys. 3-room and cross-passage plan - possibly originally a long-house. Panelled door in early C18 moulded brick surround with entablature. Ground floor has 3 ovolo-mullioned timber windows with casements (one of these a C20 copy). First floor has 4 casement windows with glazing bars. Lower extension at east end, of brick, with slate roof. C18 2-storeyed rear wing of brick, with slate roof. Internally, the parlour - at west end - has an original open fireplace with moulded stone j ambs and timber lintol. Also considerable remains of wall paintings of c 1600 - biblical texts in panels with strapwork borders. Hall has simpler open fireplace. Cast iron pump at rear of house. RCHM Monument 6. Graded II* for wall paintings.
Listing NGR: SY9164395570
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 108425
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970)
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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