Description

MELBURY OSMOND MELBURY OSMOND ST 5707 VILLAGE Manor Farm 8/92 Cottage 11.11.66 II GV Detached former farmhouse, now private dwelling. Early C16, with raised eaves, refenestrated and consolidated C20. Rubble-stone walls. Thatch roof with gable-ends. C20 white brick stacks at gable ends. 1 1/2 storeys. 4 windows, (5 to ground floor). Wood mullions, painted, of 2, 3 and 4 lights. Iron casements and lead lights. Mainly wood lintels. Eyebrow dormers, each a 2-light casement, sides of casement frames have projecting boards to keep thatch back. Plank door, right of centre, with wood lintel over, C20. Interior: ground floor centre room has moulded and compartmented ceiling beams, with hollow, roll and hollow mouldings throughout, C16. Plank-and-muntin partitions, C16, with renewed cill-beams. Flagstone floors. South end room has an open fireplace with stone monolith jambs and cambered, chamfered lintel, C16. Spiral staircase, in right hand side of fireplace, original position, wooden treads renewed. (Fireplace against cross-passage removed, and new staircase inserted C20.) Roof of jointed-cruck construction, with collars, much altered. (RCHM. Dorset I, p.160(8))

Listing NGR: ST5745707675

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)