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Lower Minchington Farmhouse

A Grade II* Listed Building in Sixpenny Handley, Dorset

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.9304 / 50°55'49"N

Longitude: -2.0437 / 2°2'37"W

OS Eastings: 397022

OS Northings: 114554

OS Grid: ST970145

Mapcode National: GBR 300.L3B

Mapcode Global: FRA 66LN.5ML

Plus Code: 9C2VWXJ4+5G

Entry Name: Lower Minchington Farmhouse

Listing Date: 18 March 1955

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1323495

English Heritage Legacy ID: 107433

ID on this website: 101323495

Location: Gussage St Andrew, Dorset, DT11

County: Dorset

Civil Parish: Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge

Traditional County: Dorset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset

Church of England Parish: Sixpenny Handley with Gussage St Andrew

Church of England Diocese: Salisbury

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Description


This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 7 September 2023 to correct the grade, remove superfluous source details from text and to reformat the text to current standards

ST 91 SE
5/97

SIXPENNY HANDLEY
MINCHINGTON
Lower Minchington Farmhouse

18.3.55

GV
II*
Farmhouse, c.1600. Flint and rubble, part rendered with ashlar quoins and dressings. Tiled and stone slated roofs with end stone copings and brick stacks. L-plan. Two storeys and attics, three window range. Ground floor has stone moullioned windows with returned labels, of three-lights right and four-lights left. Central door way with chamfered, depressed, four-centred head. Above the door is a small single-light stone window. The upper floor has timber casements with leaded-lights. To the rear is a stair turret in the re-entrant angle. Scullery door has depressed, four-centred head. Some wrought-iron casements with leaded-lights.

Internal features (RCHM): hall divided from cross-passage by reset C17 panelling; original plank and muntin partition with doors to other side of passage; stairs of two periods in the C17 the later having a moulded handrail and turned baluster and the earlier solid oak treads radiating from central newel post; deep stop chamfered beams; plank and muntin partitions; doorways in attic partitions with chamfered four-centred heads.

Listing NGR: ST9702214554

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