Farrs

Farrs is a detached house located on Whitcombe Road in Beaminster. The building has its origins in the 17th century, with a rear section, and features an early 18th-century south range that is positioned at right angles to the main structure, creating an L-shaped plan. The south range is constructed with ashlar stone walls and has a stone slate roof adorned with stone gable copings. It includes three stone stacks with moulded cornices located at the left-hand gables, just right of the front door alignment, and at the right-hand gable.

The house is two storeys tall with attics and presents a symmetrical front with seven windows. The ground floor windows are two-light stone mullions with ovolos and low cills, featuring iron casements with lead lights, where one side is fixed and the other opens. Continuous labels with returned stops are present over each group of three ground floor windows, while the upper storey has a continuous label over all its windows. There are three dormers on the front, each with two-light casements and hipped stone slate roofs.

The front door is centrally located and features a stone architrave with a pulvinated frieze and a plain open stone pediment supported by volute brackets. The door itself is made of wood and has six fielded panels. At the rear, there is a staircase wing from the 18th century that includes a canted oriel. The 17th-century part of the house extends north and has its own 17th-century stair wing at the rear, with both stair wings being two storeys tall and having pitched stone-coped gables. The 17th-century range also has two storeys with attics and includes two stacks, retaining a four-light mullion window with a label and a doorway with a stone surround and a four-centered head.

Inside, the 18th-century rooms feature plaster cornices with bay-leaf decoration, and window shutters with six fielded panels that secure to iron catches on the stone window mullions. The dining room includes a mid-18th-century fireplace with marble slips and a wooden surround, featuring carved side-scrolls, a frieze, and a shelf, as well as rococo scroll-work with a central pecking bird and a foliage frieze. The rear staircase has a large wooden lintel, and the floors are made of flagstone.