Brook Cottage With Attached Barn At West End Grooms Cottage

CHILFROME SY 59 NE CHILFROME VILLAGE

2/14 Grooms Cottage and Brook Cottage with 26-1-56 attached Barn at West end. (formerly listed as pair of GV cottages 240 yds WNW of church)

II Farmhouse, now two attached cottages, and barn. Late C16, perhaps with earlier core. Chalk block and banded flint walls. Thatch roof, half hipped at left hand end and continuous into barn roof at right hand end. C20 brick stacks at left and right hand gables. 1½ - 2 storeys. 4 windows in total. Stone-framed windows at 'bays' 2 and 4 (ground): 2-light and 4-light with hollow-chamfered stone mullions, iron casements with fixed lead lights. Separate labels over. 3-light stone-mullion window top right. Remainder a mixture of 2- and 3- light wooden casements. Door to Groom Cottage, on left gable end. Plank-and-muntin door. Thatch porch canopy over carried on 2 wooden posts. Door to Brook Cottage, right of centre, flush-panelled with 2 frosted upper lights, C20. Thatch porch canopy carried on 2 chamfered wooden posts. The adjoining barn has chalk block walls, and a thatch roof. The roof construction is partly fallen in, C17. (R.C.H. M. Dorset I,p.98(3).)

Listing NGR: SY5880998830