Senior'S Farmhouse And Attached Barn

ST 71 NE MARNHULL NEW STREET

4/117 Senior's Farmhouse 4.10.60 and attached barn (formerly listed as GV Senior's Farmhouse) II* House, c.1500 with C18 and later additions and alterations. Coursed rubble and ashlar walls with gable-ended, tiled and stone-slated roof. Brick stacks to gable and to right of front door. East facade: 2 storeys, 4 window range. Ground floor right has a 3-light square headed window, under a hood mould, each light having a 4-centred head. Next is a modern single light casement in a blocked doorway. To the right of the doorway is a 2-light, square headed window with cusped, traceried head. The left hand bay has a modern copy of the right hand bay window. 2 upper floor north bays have 2-light square headed windows with square-headed lights. The upper floor left bays are similar except that each light has a traceried head. Small trefoiled loop between 2 left bays. Moulded, pointed head doorway with continuous jambs in square surround with carved leaf spandrels under a label. This doorway has been mutilated by the insertion of an Cl8 part-glazed, panelled door. The barn is C18 with rubble walls and a stone-slate roof. Internal features (RCHM): moulded and chamfered ceiling beams and wall-plates; 4-centred head fireplaces with various carving and decoration; high quality, original plank and muntin partitions, one bearing paintings and another with carved tracery; C16 moulded plaster ceiling panels; 4-centred head partition doorways. The precise original purpose of the building is uncertain. RCHM, Dorset, vol III, p 152/3, no 4. Newman J and Pevsner N, The Buildings of England: Dorset, Penguin, 1972, p 270/1.

Listing NGR: ST7810218710