Northdown Farmhouse And Attached Front Boundary Walls And Outbuilding

Northdown Farmhouse is an early 19th century farmhouse, with an attached outbuilding, possibly of earlier date. It is situated on Sutton Road, Sutton Poyntz, Weymouth. The farmhouse is constructed of coursed and squared stone, with rubble returns and some rendering, and has a slate roof. It is a long, single-depth range facing the road, with a small extension to the centre of the rear, under a swept-down roof, and a later parallel range to the left. An attached outbuilding, slightly projecting from the main frontage, is located at the left end.

The farmhouse has two storeys and a facade of one window bay plus three. All windows are replacement sashes with internal glazing bars, fitted with double glazing, and are set within wide, splayed stone lintels. A wide arched opening in the third bay contains a six-panel door with a radial fanlight above. Raised coped gables are present, each with a stack, and a further ridge stack is situated towards the left. The right-hand gable is plain. The rear of the building features various sashes. The interior has not been inspected.

The attached outbuilding features good squared rubble stonework to the street frontage and an asbestos-cement slate roof, half-hipped at the outer end. A central wide opening has plank doors, brick dressings and a segmental head, with three small lights to the right, and a plank door under a timber lintel in a slightly set-back section at the junction with the farmhouse. The outer gable has a two-light casement with small panes, and a large sliding door. The window and stack spacing suggests the original structure may have been a three-bay house with a detached outbuilding, with an additional bay subsequently inserted. The replacement windows have diminished the visual quality, but the building remains significant. A short length of stone wall rakes down to a square rendered pier at each end of the house front; a low plinth wall, formerly railed, is present, opening opposite the door.