Description

SOUTH PERROTT PICKETT LANE
ST 40 NE
12.6.53
2/251 Pickett Farmhouse
- II*

Farmhouse, former Grange. C15 core to south range, and C17 west range.
Rubble-stone walls. Slate roof with stone gable-copings. East elevation:
brick stack at left hand gable and right hand front eaves. 2 storeys.
c3 windows, 3-light wooden and iron casements with glazing-bars, wooden
lintels and cills, C19 and C20. Door left of centre, with 9 flush-panels.
Reconstituted stone porch, C20. South gable-end has barded stone and
rubble walling. Blocked windows, of 2 lights, trefoil-cusped with a panel
tracery head. Pointed arch with a label over, C15. North gable-end with
diagonal buttresses, C15. West range, C17 core and has window openings
of that period, with C20 casements. Interior: Roof, south range: arch-
braced collar-beam roof with end-trusses, C15. 7 bays. 2 sets of through-
purlins, with remains of 2 tiers of wind-braces, set on to the back of the
purlins. Studding and plasterwork survive, dividing off the roof-space.
Probably, originally a first-floor hall. Inserted fireplace on south gable
wall, with very large flue.
Source: RCHM Dorset I, p177(3).

Listing NGR: ST4718105479

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17542854

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