Aller Farm House

Aller Farm House, Lower Ansty, DT2 7PX

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1324259
Date first listed:: 10-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: Aller Farm House
Statutory Address:: Aller Farm House, Lower Ansty, DT2 7PX

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1324259
Date first listed:: 10-Oct-1985
Date of most recent amendment:: 29-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: Aller Farm House
Statutory Address 1:: Aller Farm House, Lower Ansty, DT2 7PX

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Aller Farm House, Lower Ansty, DT2 7PX

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Hilton
National Grid Reference:: ST7669603020

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 07/10/2019

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HILTON Lower Ansty Aller Farm House

(Formerly listed under ALLER LANE, previously listed as Allen Farm House)

GV II Farm house. Originally two houses - possibly a unit system, linked by roofing over a narrow passage between them. Left hand house late C15-early C16. Right-hand house probably early C17 but altered, and extended to right in C18 or C19. Flint and rubble stone walls with some brick dressings. Hipped thatched roof; brick stacks along ridge.

Five buttresses to front wall. Flush panel door in C20 thatched porch. Ground floor has nine casement windows, one with lead lights, the rest with glazing bars; some in altered openings. Attic has ten dormers, five with lead lights, one with cast iron glazing, four with casements with glazing bars, C20 two storeyed rear extension in matching construction; also a small flat-roofed extension. Left hand section originally an end-hall house, with two-bay hall open to the roof, and service rooms on right. Hall floored over and stack inserted, early C17. This section retains two smoke-blackened jointed cruck trusses, the centre turns off the hall with braced collar. Part of cruck post visible on ground floor. Shouldered arched doorway on ground floor. Inserted stack has stone jambs and timber lintel. Deep chamfered beams to inserted floor. Part of a second inserted stack remains, with large open fireplace. In right-hand section, some chamfered ceiling beams. Considerably restored c1980, but early internal features retained.

Front boundary wall of flint and brick.

RCHM Monument 26 (Dorset. Vol.III.)

Listing NGR: ST7669603020

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Legacy System number:: 103432
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Inventory of Dorset, (1970)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.