Listed Building record MDO13545 - South Farmhouse, Farnham

A farmhouse built in the sixteenth century, but substantially modified in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The building has walls of flint rubble and a thatched roof with brick chimney stacks, and a weatherboard extension. Surviving original features in the interior are reported to include beams, a fireplace, and the remains of a cruck truss.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 13, 19 (Monograph). SDO99.

‘(5) SOUTH FARM (96041501), cottage, of one storey with attics, has walls of rubble, flint and brickwork, and thatched roofs; it is probably of 16th-century origin. In the S.E. room the ceiling has four stop-chamfered beams resting on a central post; the fireplace has chamfered stone jambs and an elm bressummer. In the N.W. room the fireplace is similar to that described and the ceiling has two stop-chamfered beams. Part of a cruck truss remains in the N.E. wall.’

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209797 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Aug 22 2024 8:03PM