Sock Dennis Farm House And Boundary Wall To North

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ILCHESTER CP SOCK DENNIS

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Sock Dennis Farm House and boundary wall to north

19.4.61

GV II

Detached farmhouse. Dated 1723, reshaped early C19. Local lias stone cut and squared. Ham stone and Portland stone dressings; Welsh slate roofs between coped gables; ashlar chimney stacks with moulded caps. Double roof plan, two storeys with attic, 3-bay south elevation. Outer bays have 16 pane sash windows, Ham stone cills, false keystoned lias lintols over; to centre upper bay a 20-pane window with semi-circular head, matching lias stone arch; below is a part-glazed door set in an open stone porch in Portland stone with Doric columns and pilasters, plain entablature, flat roof. East gable plain; west gable has two 16-pane sash windows to attic, with keystoned Ham lintols; central lead downpipe with stackhead dated 1723 and central closed stone porch with stone slate root, plain side windows and Regency pattern 6-panel inner door, small C20 window to left. On north elevation, 2 bays, are 16-pane sash windows above, and C18 hollow-chamfer mullioned windows in wave mould recesses, no labels, 3-centre arched lights with incised spandrils. Interior not seen. About 4 metres north of house a 32 metre length of stone plank walling, with angled return to barn (q.v) add to setting of house. Sock Dennis was an early separate settlement by at least the C13 (VCH, Vol III, 1974).

Listing NGR: ST5167521328