Listed Building: LOWER MINCHINGTON FARMHOUSE (107433)

SIXPENNY HANDLEY ST 91 SE MINCHINGTON 5/97 Lower Minchington Farmhouse 18.3.55 GV II* Farmhouse, c.1600. Flint and rubble, part rendered with ashlar quoins and dressings. Tiled and stone slated roofs with end stone copings and brick stacks. L-plan. 2 storeys and attics, 3 window range. Ground floor has stone moullioned windows with returned labels, of 3-lights right and 4-lights left. Central door way with chamfered, depressed, 4-centred head. Above the door is a small single-light stone window. The upper floor has timber casements with leaded-lights. To the rear is a stair turret in the re- entrant angle. Scullery door has depressed, 4-centred head. Some wrought- iron casements with leaded-lights. Internal features (RCHM): hall divided from cross-passage by reset C17 panelling; original plank and muntin partition with doors to other side of passage; stairs of 2 periods in the C17 the later having a moulded handrail and turned baluster and the earlier solid oak treads radiating from central newel post; deep stop chamfered beams; plank and muntin partitions; doorways in attic partitions with chamfered 4-centred heads. (RCHM, Dorset, vol V, p 67, no. 9). Listing NGR: ST9702214554

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