Listed Building record MDO10418 - Font Le Roi, Folke

A house thought to have been built around AD 1600 but with many 18th-century and later alterations. The north-east wing was probably built in the fifteenth century, perhaps as a gatehouse. The building has walls of stone rubble and a tiled roof.

A rubble-walled house built circa 1600, but much altered in the 18th century. The north east wing was built as a gatehouse, probably in the 15th century, and is now farm buildings. <2>

"Font le Roi", name confirmed by owners, a large farm house in fair condition. The south west wing retains stone mullioned windows, some blocked, but the rest of the house was referestrated with wooden windows in the 18th/19th century. Stone flag roofs but rebuilt chimneys in red brick. At the north end of a range of outbuildings, a gatehouse with a pointed arched 15th century doorway, now blocked. The gateway, with heavy wood beam lintels has probably been reconstructed. <4>

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1923-33, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch three, 1927 (Map). SDO11595.

ST 67201362 Font le Roi (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 113 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(4) FONT LE ROI, house about 1,400 yards N.E. of the church, is of two storeys; the walls are of rubble and the roofs are tiled. The N.E. wing, now farmbuildings, is of mediæval origin and was built as a gate-house probably in the 15th century. The house, which adjoins it on the S.W., was built c. 1600, but has been much altered in the 18th century. The W. front of the house has two gabled bays of which the northern has an original three-light window; the southern bay has a six-light window of which the side lights are blocked; above it is a three-light window. The entrance-archway has a timber lintel but adjoining it is a 15th-century doorway with chamfered jambs and two-centred head. Inside the building, the S.W. room has an original plaster ceiling, restored in 1938; it has moulded ribs forming an elaborate geometrical design, with conventional foliage-enrichments.’

<3> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 207 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<4> Phillips, A S, Various, Field Investigators Comments ASP, F1 ASP 17-NOV-77 (Unpublished document). SWX3817.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 199527 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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