Listed Building: HIGHER FARM HOUSE INCLUDING FRONT BOUNDARY WALL (106158)

YETMINSTER ST 5910 HIGH STREET (North side) 11/141 Higher Farm House 11.7.51 including front boundary wall GV II Detached house. Date stones on front wall. "A.W. 1624" and "A.W. 1630". Rubble stone walls, hipped asbestos tile roof, brick end stacks. 2 storeys - (originally one storey and attics). Pair of part-glazed doors apparently in former window opening - (head and remains of mullion survive). Blocked doorway left of this. Ground floor has two 4-light stone mullioned windows with hoodmoulds and casements with centre horizontal bar. First floor has two 2-light and two 3-light similar windows. Small lozenge-shaped recess at high level. 2-storeyed rear wing at left end, has tiled roof with stone eaves courses. Single-storey rear lean-to, with pantile roof. Internally, right ground floor room has large open fireplace with cambered timber lintel. Rear door in depressed 4-centred arch. Some deep chamfered ceiling beams. Low front boundary wall of rubble stone, with cock and hen coping. (RCHM Monument 14. Dorset. Vol. I. R Machin "The Houses of Yetminster". University [of Bristol 1978.) Listing NGR: ST5932410853

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