Pear Tree Farmhouse

ST 50 NW 1/70 4.12.51

HALSTOCK HIGHER HALSTOCK LEIGH Pear Tree Farmhouse

II

Detached Farmhouse. Dated H. S-A 1737 on stone tablet over the doorway. Rubble-stone walls and ashlar quoins. Roman-tile roof, (formerly thatch) with stone gable-copings. Stone stacks with moulded cornices at gable ends. Two storeys and attics. 3 windows, ground floor windows have a continuous string-course over, stepped up, over front doorway. Hollow-chamfered stone mullions, with wood casements, renewed. Windows of 3-lights, except centre upper of 2 lights. Front door at centre, with recess-panels, C20. Interior: open fireplace in each end with dressed stone jambs and wood lintel. Half-spiral wood staircase in corner beside east end fireplace. Central hall, with heavy plank-and-muntin partitioning, dividing it off from rooms. Attached outbuilding at east end C19, rubble-stone with brick quoins. Corrugated asbestos roof. Two storeys. One window, brick-dressed wood casement. (RCHM Dorset I, p.122(16))

Listing NGR: ST5122908078