Listed Building: WEST CRUXTON FARMHOUSE (401643)

MAIDEN NEWTON SY 69 NW CRUXTON 3/89 West Cruxton Farmhouse 26-1-56 GV II* Manor Farmhouse. Late C16, with C19 extension at south end. Flint and dressed stone walls, with stone base. Clay-tile roofs with stone gable-copings and moulded kneelers. C20 brick stacks at both gable ends. 2 storeys and attics. 5 windows, all with hollow-chamfered stone mullions in square frames, depressed- arch heads, fixed lead-lights with opening metal casements at centre. Ground floor openings: 2-, 2-, porch, 3-, buttress, 3-light, small buttress. Gabled porch at centre, to full height, entrance has a depressed arch in a square head, with returned label over. Plank-and-muntin door, studded, with a weatherboard at foot of door. Rear elevation has a staircase tower, with 3-light and 4-light stone mullions. Extension of house at south end, C19. Rubble-stone with brick dressings, brick stack at gable end. 3-light cast-iron casement with glazing-bars, segmental head. Interior: Some doorways with original oak frames and 4-centred heads. Some C17 panelling (RCHM) (RCHM Dorset I, p.153 (ll).) Listing NGR: SY6025896548

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Jan 7 2019 10:22AM