Old Dairy House

LONGBURTON ST 6412 LONGBURTON VILLAGE 10/88 Old Dairy House 11.7.51

GV II

Dairy-house. Early C17. Rubble-stone walls. Thatch roof, being fully rethatched 1985. Stone gable-copings with moulded kneelers. Rebuilt brick stacks at the gable ends. South elevation: 1½ storeys. 3 windows (ground floor), hollow-chamfered stone mullions with separate labels over. The ground floor of 4 lights, 2 lights, and canted bay with 4 lights to front, iron casements. Upper floor, has 2 full dormers with hipped thatch roofs, 3-light mullions with rebuilt rubble-stone dormers. Door is at right hand end into an outshut, therefore re-set, chamfered stone jambs and depressed-arch head, C17. C19 plank door with strap-hinges. Rear range to north, has a clay-tile roof and gable-end to north, with rubble-stone stack. 2 storeys, 2- and 3-light wood casements. Plank door at rear. Interior: unusual single storey east passage. East room: ceiling divided into 6 panels by flat-chamfered beams. Large open fireplace. Central unheated area: stairs and partitions all C19 matchboarding. West room: ceiling divided into 4 panels by flat-chamfered beams. North-west gable fireplace not original. (RCHM Dorset I. p.62 (12) Survey by R Machin, July 1978)

Listing NGR: ST6486612570