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Latitude: 50.7747 / 50°46'29"N
Longitude: -2.5996 / 2°35'58"W
OS Eastings: 357819
OS Northings: 97410
OS Grid: SY578974
Mapcode National: GBR PS.ZKZH
Mapcode Global: FRA 57F1.C25
Plus Code: 9C2VQCF2+V5
Entry Name: Little Toller Farmhouse
Listing Date: 26 January 1956
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1228875
English Heritage Legacy ID: 403594
ID on this website: 101228875
Location: Toller Fratrum, Dorset, DT2
County: Dorset
Civil Parish: Toller Fratrum
Traditional County: Dorset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset
Church of England Parish: Maiden Newton and Valleys
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
Tagged with: Farmhouse
TOLLER FRATRUM
SY 59 NE -
2/124 Little Toller Farmhouse
26-1-56
GV II*
Manor Farmhouse. Mid C16, for John Samways of Winterborne St Martin. C19
range at right angles at south-west corner. Limestone ashlar walls with
Ham Stone dressings. Shallow-coursed rubble-stone at left hand end, and in
C19 wing. Concrete tile roof with gable ends and stone gable-copings. Brick
stack at left hand gable, C19. Stone stack with verge and cornice at right
hand gable, C17. Projecting stack at centre of front wall terminating in a
gable. 2 chimneys stands up from gable-copings either side of apex, with
octagonal cappings. At gable apex, barley-sugar finial, with carved monkey
holding a hammer. Octagonal buttress at right hand end, with barley-sugar
finial terminating in a griffin. 2 storeys and attics. 4 windows, total.
Ground floor openings; Cl9 sash with low cill left of stack. Coupled C19
sashes, low cill, immediately right of front door. Plate-glass panes. Front
door immediately right of front stack, straight-chamfered jambs; door, flush-
panelled with 4 glazed lights, C19. Porch, moulded stone canopy with frieze
and cornice carried on octagonal stone shafts with bases and capitals, possibly
C18. Label of unusual form over ground floor openings. First floor windows,
one 2-light, and two 4-light mullioned windows with 4-centred heads, C16.
Cast-iron casements with glazing-bars. 2-light C19 casement at left hand end.
Rear of house, banded flint and stone walling. Stair-tower on east gable-end
projects, C16 buttress at north-east corner. Projecting stair-well on
rear wall with plinth moulding carried round it.
Interior: Probable garderobe tower at east end, now cupboards at both levels.
Rear staircase tower, now with early C20 stairs, flagstones. House much
re-fashioned in C19. Roof, much rebuilt 1960's, stone original principal rafters
survive, double-morticed to take wagon-bracing. Rebuilt wagon-roof construction
throughout whole roof, originally C16, bracing original. Service-range, early
C19, wing at south-west corner, at right-angles is included.
(RCHM Dorset I, p.251 (2))
Listing NGR: SY5781997410
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