Berry Farmhouse
BERRY FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1213863
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Berry Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BERRY FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1213863
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Berry Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BERRY FARMHOUSE
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:
- BERRY FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bridport
- National Grid Reference:
- SY4828292822
Details
SY 49 SE
2/46
BOTHENHAMPTON
WALDITCH
Berry Farmhouse
II*
Detached Farmhouse, of longhouse form, with byre in use. Date c.Cl6
with early C17 ceiling, and C19 and C20 alterations. Cob and Rubble-
stone walls. Corrugated-iron roofs. C20 brick stack at left hand
gable, and on ridge. House is now converted to 1½ storeys. Byre
at left hand is one storey. House: c.4 windows, with early C20
brick dressings and segmental brick arch-heads to ground floor
windows. 2-light wooden casements with glazing-bars, C20. Two C20
dormers with 2-light wooden casements with glazing-bars. Door, at
left hand, wood with 9 glass panes, bowed, C20. Byre at left hand:
a continuous build with the farmhouse. Door, at right hand, plank
stable-door with wooden framing and lintel. Loft door at centre
plank. Loop, left of centre, further door to byre at left hand end.
C19 room at left hand built into the former byre. Interior: Roof
has 3 jointed-cruck trusses with 2 soffit pegs and a lower slip-
tenon. Cambered collar with one peg mortice and tenon. Probably
3 purlins per principal. Ridge-piece cut off where interrupted by
stack, whereas upper purlins continue across sides of stack. Central
stack straight-jointed to rear west wall. Bread oven on west side.
East jamb rebuilt in brick. Inserted ceiling with 3-inch chamfers
with step-and-hollow stops. North gable end wall not at right-angles.
RCHM Dorset I, p 3O(11).
Listing NGR: SY4828292822
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 398510
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1952), 30
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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