Listed Building record MDO27851 - Medieval hall house, formerly an inn, Fontmell Magna

The original house, with a variant T-class plan, was built about the end of the 16th century. Being a two storey house with attics, having walls of ashlar and of rubble with a tiled roof. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

'(8) Cottages (86771689), three adjacent, formerly an inn, are of one storey with dormer-windowed attics and have walls of timber-framework above rubble plinths ; the roofs are thatched. The middle part of the range is of the late 15th century and retains three bays of a cruck roof. The central cruck is chamfered, suggesting that it originally spanned an open-roofed two-bay hall. In c. 1600 the chimneystack and an upper floor with deeply chamfered beams were inserted in the former hall, and a bay was added at the N. end of the range. The E. wall retains original square-headed casement windows, now blocked, with chamfered timber mullions.' [1]

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 24 (Monograph). SDO99.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 24 (Monograph). SDO99.

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Aug 22 2024 8:07PM