Listed Building: SUNNYBANK (401059)

In the entry for:- SY 49 SE SHIPTON GORGE CHAPEL STREET Sunnybank 2/237 5-9-60 GV II The description should be amended to read:- Farmhouse, now house. Late C16/early C17 remodelled in C19, when walls heightened and interior mostly altered. Coursed limestone rubble; gabled Welsh slate roof with brick and rendered left-end and ridge stacks. 3-unit through-passage plan. 2 storeys; 3-window range. Segmental C19 stone arches over C20 door and two and 3-light casements; to ground-floor right are hood moulds over late C16/early C17 chamfered stone-mullioned three and 4-light windows. Similar 3- light window to rear. Interior: ground floor room to right has survived C19 remodelling: it has open fireplace to left backing onto through-passage, with chamfered timber bressummer and chamfered stone jambs; plank and muntin partition with chamfered top rail and muntins has remnants of late C16/early C17 wall painting with traces of flowers and arabesques picked out in black. A notable survival. RCHM Dorset I, p. 222(4). SY 49 SE SHIPTON GORGE CHAPEL STREET 2/237 Sunnybank 5-9-60 - II Detached former farmhouse. Mid C17, largely re-fashioned in C19. Rubble-stone walls. Slate roof with gable-ends. C20 brick stack at left hand gable; rendered stack on ridge, left of centre. 2 storeys. 3 windows, two are 4- and 2-light stone mullions with hollow chamfers. Returned labels over and stone cills. Remainder are 2- and 3-light wooden casements with horizontal glazing-bars and wooden cills. Segmental window-heads. Front door, left of centre, plank with one glass light, C20. RCHM Dorset I, p 222 (4). Listing NGR: SY4967891583

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