Description

ST 50 NW
1/72

HALSTOCK
LOWER HALSTOCK LEIGH
Lime Mead Farmhouse

II

Detached Farmhouse, altered to two tenements, built down the slope, at right
angles to lane. Late C16, with C19 refenestration, eaves raised, and C20
alterations. Shallow rubble-stone walls, random and coursed work. Corrugated-
iron roofs with thatch under. Stone gable-coping at south end. Brick stacks
at gable-ends. 1 1/2 storeys. Two windows to east elevation, hollow-chamfered
stone mullions, of 3 lights each, southern one has a separate returned label.
Wooden and iron casements. Half-dormers have 2-light and 3-light wood casements,
C20. Doorways: left of centre, plank with strap-hinges, C19. Right of centre,
wood and glazed, C20. Interior: north end room has a C16 ceiling in four main
compartments, with deep-chamfered beams. Open fireplace, with heavy deep-
chamfered wood bressumer over, C19 bread oven in left hand side. Roof of
jointed-cruck construction with 2 sets of butted through-purlins.
(RCHM. Dorset I, p.122 (13))

Listing NGR: ST5201907842

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26446795

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Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)