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Higher Abbott's Wootton Farmhouse

A Grade II* Listed Building in Whitchurch Canonicorum, Dorset

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.7644 / 50°45'51"N

Longitude: -2.8812 / 2°52'52"W

OS Eastings: 337946

OS Northings: 96463

OS Grid: SY379964

Mapcode National: GBR PL.17R6

Mapcode Global: FRA 47V2.3BY

Plus Code: 9C2VQ479+QG

Entry Name: Higher Abbott's Wootton Farmhouse

Listing Date: 7 August 1952

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1216622

English Heritage Legacy ID: 402099

ID on this website: 101216622

Location: Dorset, DT6

County: Dorset

Civil Parish: Whitchurch Canonicorum

Traditional County: Dorset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset

Church of England Parish: Whitchurch Canonicorum with Stanton St Gabriel and Fishpond St Candida and Holy Cross

Church of England Diocese: Salisbury

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Description


SY 39 NE WHITCHURCH CANONICORUM ABBOTT'S WOOTTON LANE

2/158 Higher Abbott's Wootton
7.8.52 Farmhouse

- II*

Farmhouse, former monastic grange. Mid C15 with later alterations and C19
extension to south west. Rubble-stone walls with stone quoins. Stone buttress
on south elevation with weathering and plinth. Plain tile roof with a gable
end at left hand and hipped at right hand. One brick stack at left hand gable
and at rear eaves. Plan: not certainly recoverable. Living accommodation,
left of door; agricultural use right of door, perhaps originally divided by
central cross-passage. Originally first floor hall. 2 storeys. 4 windows,
left hand ground has the moulded surround and trefoil-cusped head of a 4-light
stone-mullion window. Mullions removed. Label over with returned ends and
square stops. Now has 3-light wooden casements with lead lights. Rest: 2-light
metal casements with wooden frames and cills, leaded lights. Front door at
centre, with stone jambs and Tudor-arch head, rebated on inner face. Porch,
brick with tiled pentice roof over, C18. Wide plank door. Interior: Hall with
C15 moulded ceiling beams, making 4 large compartments. Deep chamfered beam
with half-pyramid stops. Roof: arch-braced collar-beam construction, C15.
Inverted ceiling with hollow chamfered beams, C18. Plank-and-muntin partitions
is ground floor and first floor rooms. "RCHM, Dorset I", p 264 (5).


Listing NGR: SY3794696463

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