Listed Building record MDO14549 - Hummer Farmhouse, Trent

Late fifteenth century farmhouse originally with an open hall in the west half of house, with ceilings and chimney stacks being introduced in the late sixteenth century. In the mid seventeenth century the building was extended to the east and to the north east, with the addition of a service wing. A service wing, cider-house and store, was added to the north west in the late eighteenth century. The walls of the building are a mixture of rubble and dressed stone in different places, and some of the roof is tiled, some thatched.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 259 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(10) Hummer Farm, house ¾ m. N. of the church, is of two storeys; the walls are of rubble and the roofs are thatched. It was built in the 17th century, except the middle part which may be earlier. The house retains most of its original stone-mullioned windows many of them with labels; the S. doorway has moulded jambs and segmental arch in a sqaure head with a label. Inside the building, the central room has ceiling-beams forming square panels; the fireplace has a four-centred head. Reset in the E. wall is a 12th-century doorway with a round arch of one moulded order with lozenge and rosette decoration; the jambs have each an attached shaft with a scalloped capital. Reset in the S. wall is a 14th or 15th-century moulding carved with paterae and two heads. Two other rooms have fire-places with four-centred heads.'

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Feb 17 2015 3:56PM