Description

MAIDEN NEWTON
SY 69 NW CRUXTON

3/89 West Cruxton Farmhouse
26-1-56
GV II*

Manor Farmhouse. Late C16, with C19 extension at south end. Flint and dressed
stone walls, with stone base. Clay-tile roofs with stone gable-copings and
moulded kneelers. C20 brick stacks at both gable ends. 2 storeys and attics.
5 windows, all with hollow-chamfered stone mullions in square frames, depressed-
arch heads, fixed lead-lights with opening metal casements at centre. Ground
floor openings: 2-, 2-, porch, 3-, buttress, 3-light, small buttress. Gabled
porch at centre, to full height, entrance has a depressed arch in a square head,
with returned label over. Plank-and-muntin door, studded, with a weatherboard
at foot of door. Rear elevation has a staircase tower, with 3-light and 4-light
stone mullions. Extension of house at south end, C19. Rubble-stone with brick
dressings, brick stack at gable end. 3-light cast-iron casement with glazing-bars,
segmental head.

Interior: Some doorways with original oak frames and 4-centred heads. Some C17
panelling (RCHM)

(RCHM Dorset I, p.153 (ll).)

Listing NGR: SY6025896548

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17543483

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