Curriott Farmhouse And Attached Walls

CREWKERNE

ST4309 BARN CLOSE 876-1/6/19 (West side) 06/09/74 No.49 Curriott Farmhouse and attached walls

GV II

Farmhouse. C18 and early C19. MATERIALS: squared coursed limestone rubble with a Ham Hill stone, stepped-back doorcase, steep-pitched slate roof, stepped stone coping with moulded kneelers, and truncated brick stacks to gable ends. PLAN: 2-unit plan with cupboard stairs to the rear right, flanked by lower wings, and brick outshut to the rear. EXTERIOR: 2-storeys; symmetrical 2-window range to main block. Main block has flat stone arches over early C19 eight-over-eight-pane sashes in forward frames and plank door in square-headed stone architrave to centre. Windows to the wings, each of one-window range, are 2-light casements under wooden lintels, that to the right-hand ground-floor is 3-light, the central light is shuttered. Those to the left-hand wing are blocked, and a lintel to a former door abutts the main block. The upper courses of the wings are of larger stones, suggesting a raising of the roof. INTERIOR: half-blocked open fireplace with an oak lintel to the right gable end, 2 wall cupboards below the stairs, and a raised-and-fielded 8-panel door to the left-hand room, are early C18. The fireplace to the left gable end is a c1860 arch-plate register grate. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Ham Hill stone gate piers with moulded caps and a C20 gate are flanked by limestone rubble walls which curve back to join the house on the left, and meet another wall attached to the house, on the right.

Listing NGR: ST4371009048