Listed Building record MDO14615 - Frampton Farmhouse, Leigh

'A farmhouse thought to have been built in the early seventeenth century, possibly earlier. The building has walls of stone rubble and a slate roof with brick chimney stacks. In plan it originated as a cross-passage house. A ground floor room has an open fireplace with brick arch and bread oven. The hall, in the centre of the house, has intersecting moulded ceiling beams, and a large open fireplace with a timber lintel and moulded timber jambs.'

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 131-2 (Monograph). SDO97.

'The following monuments, unless otherwise described, are of the 17th century and of two storeys; the walls are of rubble and the roofs are thatched or covered with modern materials. Some of the buildings have exposed ceiling-beams and original fireplaces. … (11) Frampton's Farm, house 200 yards W.S.W. of (10), has been much altered externally but the front retains an original doorway with a four-centred head and a stone window above it. In the N. wall is a doorway with an oak frame and a nail-studded door with ornamental strap-hinges. Inside the building, one room has a ceiling with moulded beams forming six panels. There are also some original plank-partitions. '

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May 29 2014 3:17PM