Parsonage Farm And Attached Cottage

Parsonage Farm and an attached cottage date from the early 17th century, with substantial rebuilding in the mid-18th century. The farmhouse is constructed of dressed limestone, with a tiled roof, a hip to the left and a coped verge to the right. There are groups of diagonally set brick stacks. The building is arranged in an 'L' shape. The front elevation is two storeys and features six windows. A six-panelled door with a fanlight in a semi-circular head is located to the left of centre. There is a twelve-pane sash with margin panes to the left, early 20th-century French windows and two two-light, cyma-moulded mullioned casements to the right. The first floor has five cyma-mullioned casements and one blocked mullioned window. The right return is constructed in an English garden wall bond brick with stone quoins, with a two-light ovolo-mullioned casement to the first floor and a two-light casement to the attic. The left return has an early 19th-century bay containing sashes, a half-glazed door, and a three-light casement to the ground floor; the first floor features a four-light and a three-light casement. The rear of the main range has been rebuilt in Flemish bond brick, with a large lateral stone stack to the centre. To the right is a gabled stair turret with a two-light wooden ovolo-mullioned window. A single-storey service extension, built in the early 19th century, is attached to the rear and features cast-iron latticed casements and a planked door. Internally, although partly altered, the first-floor principal room retains a fine Jacobean plaster ceiling with broad bands and pendants, and a large stone moulded square fireplace with vase-moulded pilasters, a fluted frieze to the entablature, and an overmantel with strapwork decoration bearing heraldic arms, probably of the Moore family. An ante-room to the north side of the first-floor chamber has oak wainscot panelling and a small stone Tudor-arched fireplace with arabesque carving above the mantel. The stairs have been rebuilt to the first-floor level, but an oak winding staircase survives leading to the attics. The attached cottage to the rear is of rubble stone construction with a tiled roof, a planked central door, and three-light casements on either side; two two-light casements are on the first floor, and further windows are to the rear. The property was part of the manor belonging to the Dean of Sarum and was occupied by Rachel Moore circa 1630, whose effigy is located within the north aisle of the chancel of the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul.