Dominey'S Farmhouse Old Farmhouse

OKEFORD FITZPAINE FIDDLEFORD ST 81 SW 6/129 Old Farmhouse 24.1.74 (or Dominey's Farmhouse) - II House, C16 or earlier, alterations and additions. Cl6, Cl7, Cl8/Cl9. Timber framed, facade of squared, coursed rubble. Thatched, hipped and half-hipped roof with approximately central brick stack running parallel to ridge. T-plan with Cl7 rear wing and south Cl8 extension. 2 storeys, irregular fenestration. 3-light wooden casements with no glazing bars. To the right is a rectangular bay window with casements having no glazing bars. The south extension has a 2-light casement with no glazing bars below and a 3-light chamfered, timber-mullioned window above. The house is of jointed cruck construction and one such truss is exposed in the north wall. Internal features (RCHM): fireplaces with moulded bressummers and jambs, chamfered and moulded ceiling beams, a ceiling of chamfered intersecting beams, plank and muntin partition, Cl7 balustrade, fragments of moulded plasterwork. Probably originated as an open hall house with north end services and a third south room. Later the end room were ceiled leaving the hall open. Circa 1600 the slurs was inserted, the hall ceiled and various inprovements made. "RCHM, Dorset, vol III", pp 205-206, no 33. Manuscript notes by R Machin, University of Bristol.

Listing NGR: ST8050913110