Listed Building record MDO14694 - The Court House, Ryme Intrinseca

A detached house, formerly a farmhouse, thought to have been built in the later part of the seventeenth century. The building has walls of rubble stone and a thatched roof with stone gable copings and brick chimney stacks. The building retains original features such as window and doorways, and fireplaces.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 194 (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. … (4) House, 75 yards N.W. of the church, retains some original stone-mullioned windows, with labels; the doorway in the N. front has moulded jambs and segmental head with a label. Inside the building, the W. room on the ground floor has a fireplace with moulded jambs and oak lintel; the fireplace in the E. room has an oak lintel carried across the room on three posts; a doorway in a partition has a four-centred head. On the first floor is a fireplace with moulded jambs and four-centred head.’

Record last edited

Jul 15 2015 4:40PM