Description

HALSTOCK
ST 50 NE
2/52 Liberty Farmhouse
GV
II
Detached Farmhouse. Mid C17 main range, with C18 service-range to north-east,
refenestrated C19, and C19 outhouse at west end. Rubble-stone walls and
dressed stone quoins. Thatch roof, half-hipped and hipped. Stacks: at east
end of ridge, stone with brick cap; at centre ridge, stone with moulded cornice,
C18; at-west end of ridge, brick. 1 1/2 storeys. 5 windows, irregular fenestration,
including two 4-light ovolo-moulded stone mullions to south, wood-framed iron
casements with lead lights. Doors to north elevation, plank door, left of
centre, C18, into relict cross-passage; C20 plank door towards right hand end
into outhouse. Service-range has brick-dressed windows, 2-light wood casements.
Interior: room left of cross-passage, has open fireplace with cambered wood
lintel. Staircase position, immediate left of fireplace, half-spiral wooden
stair with doorcase. Slight-chamfered ceiling-beam. C18 fielded-panel
cupboarding to alcove across corner of room. (RCHM. Dorset I, p.122(11))

Listing NGR: ST5567608371

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26412619

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)