Higher Holt Farmhouse

MELBURY OSMOND ST 50 NE HOLT LANE 2/89 Higher Holt Farmhouse GV II Farmhouse, with attached farm buildings at right angles. Late C18, with C19 refenestration. Rendered stone wall. Thatch roofs, half-hipped. Brick stack on west ridge at centre. 2 storeys and attics. 2 windows to south elevation, 3-light cast-iron casements with glazing-bars, C19. Front door at centre, plank with one top light, C20. Porch, with gabled slate roof, C20. Windows on return elevation, 2 lights casements. Attached stables and barn in one range down slope, rubble-stone walls, thatch roof. Two storeys. Openings: 2 plank doors, left of centre to stabling with one loft door over. Stable-door 'rear' entrance to barn. 2 loft doors to barn. East side of barn has a projecting porch with hipped slate roof and 2-leaf plank doors. (RCHM. Dorset I, p.161 (22))

Listing NGR: ST5669908864