Higher Abbott'S Wootton Farmhouse

SY 39 NE WHITCHURCH CANONICORUM ABBOTT'S WOOTTON LANE

2/158 Higher Abbott's Wootton 7.8.52 Farmhouse

• II*

Farmhouse, former monastic grange. Mid C15 with later alterations and C19 extension to south west. Rubble-stone walls with stone quoins. Stone buttress on south elevation with weathering and plinth. Plain tile roof with a gable end at left hand and hipped at right hand. One brick stack at left hand gable and at rear eaves. Plan: not certainly recoverable. Living accommodation, left of door; agricultural use right of door, perhaps originally divided by central cross-passage. Originally first floor hall. 2 storeys. 4 windows, left hand ground has the moulded surround and trefoil-cusped head of a 4-light stone-mullion window. Mullions removed. Label over with returned ends and square stops. Now has 3-light wooden casements with lead lights. Rest: 2-light metal casements with wooden frames and cills, leaded lights. Front door at centre, with stone jambs and Tudor-arch head, rebated on inner face. Porch, brick with tiled pentice roof over, C18. Wide plank door. Interior: Hall with C15 moulded ceiling beams, making 4 large compartments. Deep chamfered beam with half-pyramid stops. Roof: arch-braced collar-beam construction, C15. Inverted ceiling with hollow chamfered beams, C18. Plank-and-muntin partitions is ground floor and first floor rooms. "RCHM, Dorset I", p 264 (5).

Listing NGR: SY3794696463