Description

SY 39 NE WHITCHURCH CANONICORUM ABBOTT'S WOOTTON LANE

2/158 Higher Abbott's Wootton
7.8.52 Farmhouse

- II*

Farmhouse, former monastic grange. Mid C15 with later alterations and C19
extension to south west. Rubble-stone walls with stone quoins. Stone buttress
on south elevation with weathering and plinth. Plain tile roof with a gable
end at left hand and hipped at right hand. One brick stack at left hand gable
and at rear eaves. Plan: not certainly recoverable. Living accommodation,
left of door; agricultural use right of door, perhaps originally divided by
central cross-passage. Originally first floor hall. 2 storeys. 4 windows,
left hand ground has the moulded surround and trefoil-cusped head of a 4-light
stone-mullion window. Mullions removed. Label over with returned ends and
square stops. Now has 3-light wooden casements with lead lights. Rest: 2-light
metal casements with wooden frames and cills, leaded lights. Front door at
centre, with stone jambs and Tudor-arch head, rebated on inner face. Porch,
brick with tiled pentice roof over, C18. Wide plank door. Interior: Hall with
C15 moulded ceiling beams, making 4 large compartments. Deep chamfered beam
with half-pyramid stops. Roof: arch-braced collar-beam construction, C15.
Inverted ceiling with hollow chamfered beams, C18. Plank-and-muntin partitions
is ground floor and first floor rooms. "RCHM, Dorset I", p 264 (5).

Listing NGR: SY3794696463

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17543179

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