Sturt Farmhouse

ST 71 NW STALBRIDGE

1/67 Sturt Farmhouse 4.10.60 II

Farmhouse, late C16 with C18 and C19 additions. Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. Tiled roof with one hipped and one gable end. C19 gabled wing projecting to right. Original range 2 storeys of 3 bays, symmetrical. It has 2-light windows flanked by 3-light stone mullioned windows with hollow chamfered mullions and surrounds. The ground floor left window with later wooden mullions is inserted in original opening and central window is a later insertion replacing the original doorway. All ground floor windows have square labels. First floor windows are similar with the central window being modern. To the right is one bay of an C18 addition. First floor has 3-light hollow chamfered stone mullioned window. Below is a door under a four-centre head in a square surround. Head and jambs are moulded. This door may have been moved from centre of original range. Over the door is a hood made from a single-stone flag. Internally there are many deep chamfered beams and one doorway has a chamfered head and chamfered shouldered jambs. Several windows have leaded-lights wired to vertical iron bars, 'RCHM, Dorset, Vol III,"HMSO, 1970, p250, no.7. Newman J and Pevsner P "The Buildings of England: Dorset", Penguin, 1972, pp396/7.

Listing NGR: ST7269416824