Description

CHILFROME
SY 59 NE CHILFROME VILLAGE

2/14 Grooms Cottage and
Brook Cottage with
26-1-56 attached Barn at West end.
(formerly listed as pair of
GV cottages 240 yds WNW of church)

II
Farmhouse, now two attached cottages, and barn. Late C16, perhaps with earlier
core. Chalk block and banded flint walls. Thatch roof, half hipped at left hand
end and continuous into barn roof at right hand end. C20 brick stacks at left
and right hand gables. 1½ - 2 storeys. 4 windows in total. Stone-framed windows
at 'bays' 2 and 4 (ground): 2-light and 4-light with hollow-chamfered stone
mullions, iron casements with fixed lead lights. Separate labels over. 3-light
stone-mullion window top right. Remainder a mixture of 2- and 3- light wooden
casements. Door to Groom Cottage, on left gable end. Plank-and-muntin door.
Thatch porch canopy over carried on 2 wooden posts. Door to Brook Cottage,
right of centre, flush-panelled with 2 frosted upper lights, C20. Thatch porch
canopy carried on 2 chamfered wooden posts. The adjoining barn has chalk block
walls, and a thatch roof. The roof construction is partly fallen in, C17.
(R.C.H. M. Dorset I,p.98(3).)

Listing NGR: SY5880998830

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26509128

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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