(Town Farmhouse) And Attached Rear Stables

SY 5785 ABBOTSBURY MARKET STREET, WEST SIDE

10/33 No 1 (Town Farmhouse) 26.1.56 and attached rear stables

GV II

Attached farmhouse in street. Mid.C18 with C19 fenestration at rear. Grey ashlar stone walls, with a plat band. Hipped slate roof with tile ridging. Brick stack at ridge centre. 2 storeys. 2 windows, formerly 3. Sashes with vertical glazing-bars and plain stone architraves. Front door at left hand, with grey stone voussoirs. Door with 4 recess panels and 2 top lights, C19. Blockings: 1) window immediately right of front door; 2) entrance between the windows and at far right hand end is the same blocking with coursed rubble- stone, and originally formed an entrance 5 metres wide, Rear range, forming an L-plan with a porch in the angle; 3 storeys, 3-light and 2-light wooden case- ments with glazing-bars. Rear wall of front block has cast-iron casements. Back door in the angle, plank with 9 glass lights and glazed-in porch. Attached stables at rear, rubble-stone walls, slate roof, hipped at left hand end. Loft over, with steps up to plank door. Left, single light to tack room. Plank door to stables at centre, right, 2-light casement. (RCHM, Dorset I, p.9 (6).)

Listing NGR: SY5770085302