Description

CORSCOMBE COURT ST 50 NW 12.6.53 3/220 Court Farmhouse GV II*

Farmhouse, former monastic grange (Sherborne Abbey). c C14 walls and porch of north range, with C17 re-modelling, and C18 south wing. Rubble- stone walls with stone quoins. Asbestos slate and slate roofs. Brick stack on north range, ridge. Stone stacks on gable-ends of south wing. Stone gable-copings with a small apex-finial. North range, west elevation: 2 storeys and attics. 4 windows, 2- and 3-light square stone mullions, c1700. Upper ones are recent C20 insertions. Doors: stone porch in angle of 2 ranges, pointed arch entrance with straight-chamfered jambs and head. Moulded label over. Jambs are rebated. Door, of 5 planks and studded. 3-light porch window over with square stone mullions. Doorway left of centre, with same jambs and a pointed-arch head. C20 door, multi- panelled. South range, south elevation, plinth and rubble walls with ashlar quoins. 2 storeys. 3 windows, 3-light, hollow-chamfered stone mullions. Separate labels. Re-set medieval head-corbel over centre window. North gable wall, with one small lancet, low down to left, straight-chamfered and with fixed lead lights. Left jamb incised with an S. Interior: north range has heavy sawn ceiling-beams with tongued stops and with 1780 incised on one. Open fireplace, C17, with stone jambs and a cambered straight- chamfered lintel with tongued stops. Bread oven in left brick wall. Flagstone floor in room behind porch. Roof: of King-post construction with diagonal struts to principals, C19. No earlier roof in north range. Source: RCHM Dorset I, p106(4).

Listing NGR: ST5261205418

External Links

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