St Lo Farmhouse

OKEFORD FITZPAINE THE CROSS ST 8010 15/116 St Lo Farmhouse (previously 4.10.60 listed as St Loe's Farmhouse) GV II House, early C16 with additions and alterations, late C16, 1638 and C19/20. Rubble, banded rubble and flint, timber frame with brick nogging, rubble dressings. Thatched roof with gable and half-hipped ends. Brick stacks to end of range and left of cross passage. Half-hipped cross-wing left. Later outshut centre. 2 storeys and single storey with attic, irregular fenestration. Casements of 3, 4 and 5-lights with leaded lights. Upper floor left window has remains of hood mould. C20 wooden door. Internally there is a beaded plank door hung on strap hinges in a doorway with moulded timber jambs and lintel, a number of doorways with chamfered surrounds with ornamental stops, shouldered abutments and heads with raised centres. There are a number of plank and muntin partitions. C16 groundfloor fireplace with carved surround with moulded timber jambs and cupsed tracery panelling on the bressummer. C17 moulded plasterwork on first-floor chimney piece. Original range has jointed cruck trusses. Possibly originated as an open hall house. "RCHM, Dorset, vol III", p 204, no 6.

Listing NGR: ST8066410913