Description

ST 30 SE MARSHWOOD
3/35 Colmer Farmhouse
4.12.51
II
Farmhouse. C17 and probably later. Rubble walls with stone quoins,
roughcast at centre and at left hand. Corrugated-iron roof with stone
gable coping at right hand and hipped at left hand. Two C20 brick stacks,
one at right gable, one left of centre. Two storeys. Four windows, casements
with wooden frames and glazing bars. Wooden and concrete lintels and cills.
Door at centre, plank with one window opening. Simple wooden porch, C20.
Interior: Heavy ceiling beams, with ovolo and cavetto mouldings in room left
of front door. Large open fireplace with chamfered stone jambs and
chamfered wooden lintel over. Small square-panelled wainscot. Plank-and-
muntin partitioning, possible C16. Widely-spaced studding, with cob infill,
plastered, resting on a stone sleeper wall: probably original back wall of
house, before an extant Cl7/Cl9 extension. Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I,
p. 157(13).

Listing NGR: ST3791200145

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26591413

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)