Higher Orchard is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Higher Orchard
- WRENN ID
- scattered-transept-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 June 1986
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SANDFORD ORCAS ST 61 NW HIGHER SANDFORD 5/134 Higher Orchard - II Former farmhouse, now private house. C17, with C20 alterations and extensions. Rubble-stone walls. Thatch roof with stone gable-coping at left hand end. Stone stacks at gable-ends. 1½ storeys. 4 windows, 3-light wood-framed iron casements with rectangular leaded lights. Wood lintels over, C19. Door, left of centre, panelled and glazed in the top half. North elevation, has a former dairy wing at rear, raised one storey in C20. Thatch roof. Porch, left of centre, C20 rubble-stone and gabled. Door-jambs in C17 style with depressed-arch head, C20. Plank-and-muntin door. Interior: open fireplaces in both end rooms. West room fireplace has a recess in the back wall and in the side wall. Cupboard with ribbed panel door and side-panels, all pierced, and with incised geometric ornament. HL hinges. C17. (RCHM, Dorset I, p 198(4)).
Listing NGR: ST6268619938
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