Tomson Farm House
TOMSON FARM HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1324258
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Tomson Farm House
- Statutory Address:
- TOMSON FARM HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1324258
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Tomson Farm House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOMSON FARM HOUSE
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:
- TOMSON FARM HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Anderson
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 88568 97403
Details
ANDERSON SY 89 NE WINTERBORNE TOMSON
7/16 Tomson Farm House 14-7-55 GV II*
Detached farmhouse. Early C17, with C19 rear additions. Walls of ironstone rubble, hipped tiled roof with stone eaves courses; 2 stacks projecting from rear wall, stone up to eaves, brick above, each with 3 shafts set diagonally, with oversailing caps. 2 storeys and attic. Original plan rectangular, of 3 main rooms, with projecting gabled stair tower at rear. C19 rear wing at right end, incorporating remains of a C17 cottage, and C19 lean-to along rear wall. Main front elevation has 3 added brick buttresses. C20 stone porch between 2 of these, with stone slate lean-to roof: doorway with 4-centred arch flanked by narrow stone windows. Ground floor has three 4-light stone mullioned windows with lead lights, under label moulds. First floor has 4 similar windows. Rear wing has stone and brick walls and tiled roof with stone eaves courses. 2 brick stacks - one rebuilt. One storey and attic. Passage through wing near main house. Ledged door. Ground floor has 3 C20 metal windows. 2 hipped dormers in attic with similar windows. Internally, entrance hall has 2 plank and muntin partitions - one re-set, with 4-centred arched doorways. At rear, 4-centred arched doorway leads into later lean-to. Similar, blocked, doorway from lean-to into stair tower. Left ground floor room has large 4-centred arched stone fireplace. Small cupboard in adjoining wall, ventilated into fireplace. Centre room has remains of plank and muntin partition. Right end room, kitchen, has segmental-arched stone fireplace and 4-centred arched doorway. Stone spiral stair leads to first floor and attic. Main first floor rooms have C17 ornamental plaster ceilings - restored - with rose, crown and fleurs de lys motifs. Left room has carved oak C17 draught lobby, and 4-centred arched stone fireplace. Similar fireplace in right end room. 2 fireplaces, with timber lintels, in attic. Rear wing has remains of stack with large open fireplace, spiral stair and chamfered ceiling beams - all C17. House under repair at time of survey (1984). (RCHM Monument 4 Dorset, Vol.III)
Listing NGR: SY8856897403
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103429
- 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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