Listed Building: STRUDES (103183)

ST 81 NW/ST 81 SW IWERNE COURTNEY OR SHROTON FARRINGTON 1/95 3/95 Strudes GV II House, mid to late Cl7 with a probably C19 dairy left and a late C20 extension right. Brick: the main facade, is of irregular bonding giving an effect of horizontal banding in vitrified brick. The rear facade is in English bond. The left gable wall is partly in rubble. The C20 work is in Flemish bond brick and the dairy is rendered and whitewashed. Thatched roof, gabled left and half hipped right brick stacks to ends of original range, that to the left being C19 and that to the right possible original. Originally symmetrical;2 storeys, 3 bays to original house with single bay extension right, 3 light C19/20 casements with horizontal glazing bars except to the upper floor central which has a 2 light casement with full glazing bars. Central C20 part-glazed plank door under thatched porch. To the ground floor of the rear facade are 2 ovolo-moulded, timber, mullioned windows of 3 lights modified to accept later casements. The brickwork is built directly on these without lintels or arches demonstrating that they were intended to be structural. Internally there is an open fireplace with a chamfered, shallow 4-centred head timber bressummer and medium chamfered beams with run-out and step and hollow curve stops. The roof timbers are said to be original (RCHM, Dorset, vol III, p 129, no 14) Listing NGR: ST8424215006

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