Colmer Farmhouse

ST 30 SE MARSHWOOD 3/35 Colmer Farmhouse 4.12.51 II Farmhouse. C17 and probably later. Rubble walls with stone quoins, roughcast at centre and at left hand. Corrugated-iron roof with stone gable coping at right hand and hipped at left hand. Two C20 brick stacks, one at right gable, one left of centre. Two storeys. Four windows, casements with wooden frames and glazing bars. Wooden and concrete lintels and cills. Door at centre, plank with one window opening. Simple wooden porch, C20. Interior: Heavy ceiling beams, with ovolo and cavetto mouldings in room left of front door. Large open fireplace with chamfered stone jambs and chamfered wooden lintel over. Small square-panelled wainscot. Plank-and- muntin partitioning, possible C16. Widely-spaced studding, with cob infill, plastered, resting on a stone sleeper wall: probably original back wall of house, before an extant Cl7/Cl9 extension. Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p. 157(13).

Listing NGR: ST3791200145