Listed Building record MDO1141 - Gatehouse, Font Le Roi, Folke

Formerly a gatehouse, now a farmhouse. The 15th century element has a south-western range of circa 1600 with extensive 18th century alterations; this range is coursed rubble walls and a gable-ended tiled roof with a stone slate. The 17th century range is coursed rubble walls with two forward projecting wings and stone-slated, hipped roofs.

'a(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 farm buildings, is of mediaeval origin and was built as a gatehouse probably in the late 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'. (1)

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 113 (Monograph). SDO97.

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