Sweet'S Farmhouse

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3/160 Sweet's Farmhouse 16.8.60 - II

Farmhouse, C17. Coursed, squared rubble with thatched roof, hipped right and gabled left. Brick stacks to end of ridge and to right of front door. 1½ storeys, 4 window range. 3 and 4-light, hollow chamfered, stone mullioned windows, some with returned labels. (Some are C20 replacements). C20 gabled porch. Part glazed door. Brick outshut left and stone outshut right. Internally the plan was originally of 3 rooms with a stack backing onto the cross-passage. The partition between the 2 main rooms has been removed and the lower end room appears to have been at least partly rebuilt, probably in the C18. Open fireplace with chamfered timber bressummer. Middle room has ceiling of intersecting, deep chamfered beams and wall-plates. Upper end room has deep, stop-chamfered beams. Room beyond cross passage has shallow chamfered beams. Remains of fireplace with chamfered, 4-centred head upstairs. RCHM, Dorset, vol IV, p 83, no 22.

Listing NGR: ST8122920684