Carpenters

CHETNOLE ST 6007 NEAL'S LANE

7/17 Carpenters - (formerly listed as 31-7-61 House 180 yards South- east of The Parsonage)

GV II

Attached house. Probably mid-C16 origin, altered in mid-C17 and C18. Rubble stone walls, slate roof with ornamental ridge tiles, one brick stack right of door and one at right end. 2 storeys - C20 weatherboarded porch with gabled tiled roof. C18 panelled door. Date stone on front wall 1708. Left of door, a 2-light stone mullioned window with glazing bars, and a small C20 casement. Right of door, three 2-light stone mullioned windows with hoodmoulds, and casements. First floor has 3 Cl8 casements with glazing bars under stone lintels with projecting keystones. At right end, a single-storey former workshop - now incorporated into the house, has rubble stone walls and slate roof. C20 panelled door and 4 C20 casements. Internally, timber-framed partition between cross-passage and kitchen (at left end) has a shouldered- arched doorway. Exposed ceiling beam. Early ledged door in rear entrance to cross-passage. Hall has intersecting moulded ceiling beams. Large open fireplace, backing onto cross-passage, has stone jambs and moulded oak lintel. Parlour, at right end, has large open fireplace with stone jambs, timber lintel and bread oven. One chamfered ceiling beam. Chamber over hall has fireplace with moulded stone jambs and timber lintel. Reputed evidence of smoke-blackened roof timbers, indicating an open hall. (RCHM Monument 11. (Dorset. Vol.I) R Machin "The Houses of Yetminster". University of Bristol, 1978)

Listing NGR: ST6033307759