Court Orchard

ST 4400 & 4500 STOKE ABBOTT STOKE ABBOTT VILLAGE 11-11-1966 12/294 Court Orchard

GV II*

Detached Farmhouse. Dated 1751, tablet under eaves centre. Dated HL 1762 in a fielded panel set into porch. Ashlar stone walls with a continuous string over ground floor windows, stepped up over front door. Hipped thatch roof, of steep pitch. Stone stack with moulded cornice at centre ridge. Symmetrical facade: 2 storeys. 5 windows, 2-light square-section stone mullions with beaded arrises. Continuous architrave with chamfered cills. Fixed lead lights to most windows. 5 iron casements with 3 tension-bars. Front door at centre with ovolo- roll jambs. Dropped keystone at centre. Door, plank-and-muntin, studded, hinged at centre, C18, Stone porch at centre with round-arch entrance and dropped key. Projecting impost-blocks. Stone gable-coping with apex- block and ball finial. Datestone, see above. Gable-wall to lane has 2 single-light windows, each with a stone label over. Interior: Lobby-entrance, with original doorcase stair in beside fireplace jambs. Double-pile house under one roof, with a smaller rear-pile. Fielded-panel, C18 shutters and window seat. Left hand room fireplace (blocked) with chamfered lintel. Attached front wall, rubble-stone with chamfered coping-stones ramped at left hand corner, and returned. Right hand end stops at dairy. Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 226(2).

Listing NGR: ST4531200647