Church Farmhouse is a Grade I listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1951. A 15th century (C15) House.
Church Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- half-marble-elder
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1951
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Farmhouse is a former hall-house with cross-wings, now a farmhouse, dating to the 15th century with substantial rebuilding and extensions in the 17th century and a 19th-century addition on the south end. The original cross-wing, which forms the central part of the present house, runs east-west. It is constructed of rubble-stone and ashlar, with slate roofs featuring stone gable-copings. Three octagonal stone stacks with moulded cappings rise from the central ridge.
The south-east angle of the original cross-wing has a two-stage buttress. The windows are largely irregular. The east and south walls of the ground floor each have a two-light mullion window with a label, iron casements, and fixed lead lights. A late 17th-century window with architrave, consoles, cornice, and pediment is located on the east side of the first floor. A 15th-century doorway is on the north wall at the same level, featuring moulded jambs, a two-centred head, and a rere-arch that faces outwards. This doorway likely opened to the upper storey of a former porch. The western end of the cross-wing has 17th-century mullion windows of varying sizes, ranging from four lights to two lights, all with labels.
The 17th-century north wing, built on the site of a former hall, has three two-light mullion windows on its north wall. Its west wall has a doorway with a four-centred head and square label; above this is a two-light window with a label. The east wall features a doorway with a segmental arch in a square head, above which is a two-light transomed window. The 17th-century kitchen wing has a three-light 19th-century window on its west wall. A reset 15th-century window of two cinquefoiled lights with tracery in a two-centred head with a label and head-stops is on the south wall of the kitchen wing's first floor. A doorway with a four-centred head and label is located in the west wall. All interior doors are plank and studded, dating to the 19th century. A late 19th or early 20th century extension is located on the south, constructed of rubble-stone with a hipped slate roof and a wooden door.
Inside, the north wall of the cross-wing features three 15th-century doorways that open into former screens. These doorways have hollow-chamfered jambs and pointed arches. One door has ribs forming four trefoil-headed panels with tracery. The dining room contains an early 16th-century compartmented ceiling with moulded beams, and a late 16th-century fireplace with moulded jambs and a segmental head. The drawing room has a late 16th-century plastered ceiling of two bays with moulded ribs forming geometric designs and floral or foliage terminals on running vine ornament. A series of panels on the soffit display lions, roses, fleur-de-lis, a butterfly (for Girdlington), a dolphin (for Fitzjames), a rose (for Young), and a stork (for Storke). The room above the dining room features early 16th-century ceiling-beams, while the room above the drawing room has a 15th-century oak door with ribs forming three panels. The room above the kitchen has a 17th-century fireplace. A stained glass achievement-of-arms of Young, dated 1615, is set in a south window.
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