Description

SY 97NE WORTH MATRAVERS RENSCOMBE

4/107 Renscombe Farm House
20-11-59 including attached outbuilding
on south

GV II

Farmhouse. Early C17. Rubble stone walls, partly plastered; stone slate roof,
brick stacks on ridge. One storey and attic. Long narrow plan with 3 adjoin-
ing gabled projecting wings to rear, forming, in effect, a double-pile plan:-
these wings may be slightly later. Main (east) front has, near right end,
a single-storey projecting wing, a former dairy. Ground floor has three
4-centred arched doorways, (one appears recent), 2 stone-mullioned windows
with remains of lead liqhts, and 3 C20 metal windows. Small casement window
under eaves. Attic has 4 hipped dormers, - 2 with stone mullioned windows
with remains of lead lights, 2 with C20 metal casements. At left end an attached
outbuilding, continuous with the house. This has a lean-to projecting at its
left end. 2 ledged doors on ground floor, and a loft door approached by a
flight of stone steps. Internally, ground floor room at right end has large
open fireplace with 4-centred stone arch and bread oven. Large central stack
has fireplaces part built up. Several deeply chamfered ceiling beams. Roof
possibly originally of cruck form. Small lancet window in stair wing. RCHM
Monument 17 (Dorset Vol II).

Listing NGR: SY9645777599

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26413504

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Recommended Books

• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]