Farrs

ST 4701/4801 BEAMINSTER WHITCOMBE ROAD (NORTH SIDE) 12.6.53 7/171 No 3 (Farrs) GV II*

Detached House. C17 house (rear part) with an early C18 south range at right-angles. L-shaped plan. South range: ashlar stone walls. Stone slate roof with stone gable-copings. 3 stone stacks with moulded cornices at left hand gables, just right of front door alignment, at right hand gable. 2 storeys with attics. 7 windows to the symmetrical front. 2-light stone mullions (ovolos) with low cills to ground floor. Iron casements with lead lights, one side fixed, one opening. Continuous labels, with returned stops over each group of 3 ground floor windows. Upper storey has continuous label over all the windows. 3 C2O dormers with 2-light casements, hipped stone slate roofs and sides. Front door at centre surround with stone architrave pulvinated frieze and plain open stone pediment carried on volute brackets. Door, wood with six fielded panels. C18 staircase wing at reat with a canted oriel. C17 part of house runs north, having its own C17 stair-wing at its rear. Both stair-wings of 2 storeys with pitched stone-coped gables. C17 range, 2 storey with attics. 2 stacks. Retains 4-light mullion window, with a label. Doorway with stone surround and 4 centeredhead. C18 addition at north end of wing. Interior: C18 rooms have plaster-cornices with bay-leaf decoration. Window shutters with 6- fielded panels, fixing on to iron catches on the stone window mullion. Fireplace in dining room, mid C18, with marble slips and a wood surround. Carved side-scrolls, frieze and shelf. Rococo scroll-work with central pecking bird, and foliage frieze. Rear staircase, with large wooden lintel. Flagstone floors. Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 23 (7), plate 48.

Listing NGR: ST4819401162