Old Sandpitts

ST 40 SW BROADWINDSOR SANDPIT

4/57 Old Sandpitts

II*

Detached House, former farmhouse. C15 core (open hall) with c.1600 ceiling and C20 alterations. Coursed dressed stone walls. Thatch roof with gable-end at right hand, and gable at left hand to front. Stone gable-coping at left hand with ball-finial. 3 brick stacks. at left front side wall; backing on to cross-passage; at right hand gable. Former open-hall, ceiled, with front range added at right- angles in C17. 2 storeys. 3 windows to the main range, 4-light stone mullions, hollow-chamfered with separate labels over the ground floor. No labels to first floor. C19 iron, and C20 metal casements. Front door, right of centre, plank and muntin, studded, with strap- hinges. Wooden porch, C20, with a hipped thatch canopy over. Interior: roof: arch-braced collar-beam construction, with 2 bays of cusped wind-bracing (two tiers), defining open hall and further wind-bracing above inserted stack. Smoke-blackening. C15. Hall ceiling of c.mid C16. a cross of beams with massive straight chamfers. Wide inserted fireplace backing onto original cross-passage has stone jamb and straight chamfered lintel. Large open fireplace below cross-passage, wooden lintel with run-out stops. Parlour extension-at higher end has a C17 depressed-arch fireplace with straight-chamfered stone jambs. Hall stair-position possibly unaltered, stair itself rebuilt. Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 55(15).

Listing NGR: ST4251004524