Frog Farmhouse

DINNINGTON CP COOMBE ROAD (West side) ST41SW

5/15 Frog Farmhouse (previously listed, incorrectly, as Parsonage Farm House)

4.2.58

GV II

Detached farmhouse.C17.Ham stone ashlar; plain clay tiled roof with stone slate base courses between stepped coped gables; brick end chimney stacks. Two storeys, 3-bay symmetrical facade. Ovolo-mould mullioned windows in wave- mould recesses, no labels, 4-light to outer bays and 3-light upper centre bay, with some iron-framed opening lights having curl stops, and horizontal glazing bars; to lower bay 2 a beaded architrave with base stops framing a 4-panel part-glazed door, up one step. Against north gable, set back, a 2-storey single-bay extension with double Roman clay tiled roof and brick chimney stack, no windows to east front but in north gable two 3-light ovolo-mould mullioned windows in wave-mould recesses with square labels; south gable plain. Low single-storey extension to rear. Interior not seen, but reported is a roof frame of tenoned purlin construction, probably of c1796 when substantial works were carried out. House thought to be the manor house belonging to the Pouletts but leased to the Brice family; house gained its present name alter 1811 when it ceased to be the capital mansion; the estate dates from before 1246. (VAG Report, SR0 unpublished, 1973; VCH, Vol III, 1974).

Listing NGR: ST4025712734