Liberty Farmhouse

HALSTOCK ST 50 NE 2/52 Liberty Farmhouse GV II Detached Farmhouse. Mid C17 main range, with C18 service-range to north-east, refenestrated C19, and C19 outhouse at west end. Rubble-stone walls and dressed stone quoins. Thatch roof, half-hipped and hipped. Stacks: at east end of ridge, stone with brick cap; at centre ridge, stone with moulded cornice, C18; at-west end of ridge, brick. 1 1/2 storeys. 5 windows, irregular fenestration, including two 4-light ovolo-moulded stone mullions to south, wood-framed iron casements with lead lights. Doors to north elevation, plank door, left of centre, C18, into relict cross-passage; C20 plank door towards right hand end into outhouse. Service-range has brick-dressed windows, 2-light wood casements. Interior: room left of cross-passage, has open fireplace with cambered wood lintel. Staircase position, immediate left of fireplace, half-spiral wooden stair with doorcase. Slight-chamfered ceiling-beam. C18 fielded-panel cupboarding to alcove across corner of room. (RCHM. Dorset I, p.122(11))

Listing NGR: ST5567608371