Abbey House

SY 5785 ABBOTSBURY CHURCH STREET, EAST SIDE

10/19 Abbey House, (formerly listed 26.1.56 as Abbey Farmhouse)

GV II

Detached House, former farmhouse and previously part of monastic buildings east of cloister. C14 material reused, C17 and C19 refashioning. Rubble-stone and dressed stone walls. Slate roof with stone gable-copings and scroll-kneeler at left hand end and half-hip at right hand end. Stone stack with castellated parapet at left hand gable. Brick stack right of centre, .C18. Two storeys and dormers. 4 windows (first-floor). Ground floor openings: square C19 2-light bay window with a hipped slate roof; 3-light cast-iron casement with a wooden lintel over; porch with a flush panel wooden door and hipped slate roof; 3-light bay window with a hipped slate roof; small rectangular window, medieval; 3-light C19. Wooden casement; single light wooden casement. First Floor:two 3-light C19 cast- iron casements with wooden cills and two 3-light wooden casements. 3 C20 dormers, 2-light casements. North ranges, C17, with stone gable coping and apex-block. 2-light wooden casements on west side. Fragments of C12 sculpture from the abbey built in. Adjoining wing abuts and has a stone slab roof, very tall gable-end chimney has a castellated parapet and set-offs. Interior: 2 back-to-back fire- places with dressed stone jambs and saw-cut wooden lintels and wooden lintel with large chamfer and stepped stops.

Listing NGR: SY5781285154