Description

CHEDINGTON CHEDINGTON VILLAGE
ST 40 NE
12.6.53
2/180
Manor Farmhouse
with attached barn at rear
GV II*

Farmhouse. Dated: Thomas Warren 1634, but with C16 core. Dressed stone
walls, with 2 sleeper buttresses. Plain tile roof, with stone gable-copings.
Tile cresting. 3 stone stacks, a left hand gable, backing on to cross-
passage, at right hand gable, C17. Plan: Main C16 range, remodelled in
C17, with C17 extensions at rear for room, stairwell, and also service-range
extended back to abut later barn. 2 storeys. 3-4 windows. 3-, 4- and
5-light stone mullions (ovolos) with separate labels to ground floor. No
labels above. Iron casements with leaded lights. Front door, left of
centre, into cross-passage. Tudor-arch entrance and moulded jambs. Stone-
porch with a pitched stone slate roof, stone gable-coping and ball-finial.
Ogee kneelers. Tudor-arch porch entrance, with moulded jambs. Label over
with square stops. Recessed stone tablet, with egg-and-dart surround, and
the above inscription. Front door, wood, panelled, cCl9. South wall of
porch has a doorway with depressed-arch head. Interior: Moulded ceiling-
beams cC16 in right hand end. Remains of C16 plank-and-muntin screen with
straight chamfers and tongued stops. Two open fireplaces, one against the
cross-passage, one in right hand room. Original kitchen, left hand end,
has straight-chamfered ceiling-beams in 6 compartments.
Attached Barn at rear, cC18. Rubble walls. Slate roof with stone gable-
copings. Barn door with stone jambs and segmental brick heads.
Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p89(2).

Listing NGR: ST4893605596

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17542829

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