Chilcombe Farmhouse

SY 59 SW CHILCOMBE CHILCOMBE VILLAGE

3/132 Chilcombe Farmhouse

GV II

Detached Farmhouse. Late C18, with C17 windows incorporated. Coursed, dressed stone walls. Ashlar band for plinth. Stone slab roof with stone gable-copings. Rendered brick stack at each gable-coping. Single-depth L-plan house, extended under pent- roof at north end. Unusual for its heights, in relation to depth. 3 storeys. 3 windows, 3-light with a central sash, outer lights are fixed with a horizontal glazing-bar. Moulded stone architraves and flat stone mullions. Stone cills. 2-light windows at first floor centre, and to all the second floor windows. Front door at centre, with same stone architrave. Fluted frieze with Neo-Classical oval paterae at ends, and a moulded stone cornice over. Door has 4 fielded panels and 2 top lights, C19. Range on north end, c. early C19, rubble stone walls and quoins, large pentice slate roof with stone slab eaves. Stone gable-copings and level kneelers. Tall stone stack half way up the east coping. 2 storeys. 3 window, re-used C17, material, 2- anti 3-light hollow-chamfered stone mullions with separate labels over. Re-used doorway at centre, with big straight-chamfered jambs and depressed-arch head. 2-leaf plank door, studded and with strap-hinges. RCHM Dorset I, p 97 (2).

Listing NGR: SY5270290909