Baglake Farmhouse And Attached Wall To East For 26 Metres

SY 59 SE LONG BREDY BAGLAKE FARM

1/152 Baglake Farmhouse and attached wall to east 26.1.56 for 26 metres

GV II*

Detached Farmhouse. C17 house, with south block totally refashioned in early C18 under ownership of William Light. Coursed, squared rubble-stone walls, with stone dressings. Plain clay tile roof with gable ends. Stone gable-copings with scroll kneelers. Brick stacks, C19 renewals, at gable-ends, and on ridge right of centre. South block, with 3 parallel rear wings having C17 evidence. South elevation: 2 storeys with attics. 7 windows, sashes with thin glazing-bars in recessed frames. Stone cills. Upper central window with a segmental head. East gable-wall has a single rectangular light with a small plank door. Front door at centre, with 6 fielded-panels, C20. Rusticated concrete architrave, C20. Wooden canopy with large scrolled brackets in C18 style. Rear wings: east wing with dentil brick cornice, c.C18, on east side. The rear wall has 2 cross-transom mullion windows with hollow chamfers, C17, possibly reset; metal casements with lozenge leaded lights, C20. Central wing with same window type. West wing with brickwork of c.1800. Interior: south block of 3 rooms' width with large central hall, flagged. Ceiling-beams roughly adzed. Two front rooms with complete bolection-moulded and fielded panelling. Integral alcove,, left of centre with shutters. Egg-and-dart surround to fielded-panel over fireplace. Fielded-panel window shutters, to ground and first floor rooms with window-seats. Attached boundary wall to east of house, rubble-stone base and chalk cob wall with a thatch coping. Door into garden with a plank and slatted door and wooden lintel over. (RCHM Dorset I, p.41 (3). C. J. Bailey, The Bride Valley (1982), p.39.))

Listing NGR: SY5557090581