Little Toller Farmhouse
LITTLE TOLLER FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1228875
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Little Toller Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LITTLE TOLLER FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1228875
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Little Toller Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LITTLE TOLLER 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:
- LITTLE TOLLER FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Toller Fratrum
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 57819 97410
Details
TOLLER FRATRUM SY 59 NE - 2/124 Little Toller Farmhouse 26-1-56 GV II*
Manor Farmhouse. Mid C16, for John Samways of Winterborne St Martin. C19 range at right angles at south-west corner. Limestone ashlar walls with Ham Stone dressings. Shallow-coursed rubble-stone at left hand end, and in C19 wing. Concrete tile roof with gable ends and stone gable-copings. Brick stack at left hand gable, C19. Stone stack with verge and cornice at right hand gable, C17. Projecting stack at centre of front wall terminating in a gable. 2 chimneys stands up from gable-copings either side of apex, with octagonal cappings. At gable apex, barley-sugar finial, with carved monkey holding a hammer. Octagonal buttress at right hand end, with barley-sugar finial terminating in a griffin. 2 storeys and attics. 4 windows, total. Ground floor openings; Cl9 sash with low cill left of stack. Coupled C19 sashes, low cill, immediately right of front door. Plate-glass panes. Front door immediately right of front stack, straight-chamfered jambs; door, flush- panelled with 4 glazed lights, C19. Porch, moulded stone canopy with frieze and cornice carried on octagonal stone shafts with bases and capitals, possibly C18. Label of unusual form over ground floor openings. First floor windows, one 2-light, and two 4-light mullioned windows with 4-centred heads, C16. Cast-iron casements with glazing-bars. 2-light C19 casement at left hand end. Rear of house, banded flint and stone walling. Stair-tower on east gable-end projects, C16 buttress at north-east corner. Projecting stair-well on rear wall with plinth moulding carried round it.
Interior: Probable garderobe tower at east end, now cupboards at both levels. Rear staircase tower, now with early C20 stairs, flagstones. House much re-fashioned in C19. Roof, much rebuilt 1960's, stone original principal rafters survive, double-morticed to take wagon-bracing. Rebuilt wagon-roof construction throughout whole roof, originally C16, bracing original. Service-range, early C19, wing at south-west corner, at right-angles is included. (RCHM Dorset I, p.251 (2))
Listing NGR: SY5781997410
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 403594
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 251
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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