Description

SY 5785 ABBOTSBURY MARKET STREET, WEST SIDE

10/33 No 1 (Town Farmhouse)
26.1.56 and attached rear stables

GV II

Attached farmhouse in street. Mid.C18 with C19 fenestration at rear. Grey
ashlar stone walls, with a plat band. Hipped slate roof with tile ridging.
Brick stack at ridge centre. 2 storeys. 2 windows, formerly 3. Sashes with
vertical glazing-bars and plain stone architraves. Front door at left hand,
with grey stone voussoirs. Door with 4 recess panels and 2 top lights, C19.
Blockings: 1) window immediately right of front door; 2) entrance between
the windows and at far right hand end is the same blocking with coursed rubble-
stone, and originally formed an entrance 5 metres wide, Rear range, forming an
L-plan with a porch in the angle; 3 storeys, 3-light and 2-light wooden case-
ments with glazing-bars. Rear wall of front block has cast-iron casements. Back
door in the angle, plank with 9 glass lights and glazed-in porch. Attached stables
at rear, rubble-stone walls, slate roof, hipped at left hand end. Loft over,
with steps up to plank door. Left, single light to tack room. Plank door to
stables at centre, right, 2-light casement.
(RCHM, Dorset I, p.9 (6).)

Listing NGR: SY5770085302

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26592058

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Recommended Books

• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)