Manor Farmhouse With Attached Barn At Rear

CHEDINGTON CHEDINGTON VILLAGE ST 40 NE 12.6.53 2/180 Manor Farmhouse with attached barn at rear GV II*

Farmhouse. Dated: Thomas Warren 1634, but with C16 core. Dressed stone walls, with 2 sleeper buttresses. Plain tile roof, with stone gable-copings. Tile cresting. 3 stone stacks, a left hand gable, backing on to cross- passage, at right hand gable, C17. Plan: Main C16 range, remodelled in C17, with C17 extensions at rear for room, stairwell, and also service-range extended back to abut later barn. 2 storeys. 3-4 windows. 3-, 4- and 5-light stone mullions (ovolos) with separate labels to ground floor. No labels above. Iron casements with leaded lights. Front door, left of centre, into cross-passage. Tudor-arch entrance and moulded jambs. Stone- porch with a pitched stone slate roof, stone gable-coping and ball-finial. Ogee kneelers. Tudor-arch porch entrance, with moulded jambs. Label over with square stops. Recessed stone tablet, with egg-and-dart surround, and the above inscription. Front door, wood, panelled, cCl9. South wall of porch has a doorway with depressed-arch head. Interior: Moulded ceiling- beams cC16 in right hand end. Remains of C16 plank-and-muntin screen with straight chamfers and tongued stops. Two open fireplaces, one against the cross-passage, one in right hand room. Original kitchen, left hand end, has straight-chamfered ceiling-beams in 6 compartments. Attached Barn at rear, cC18. Rubble walls. Slate roof with stone gable- copings. Barn door with stone jambs and segmental brick heads. Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p89(2).

Listing NGR: ST4893605596