Building record MDO44518 - Lower Hartgrove Farm, Fontmell Magna

A house built in the seventeenth century, with later additions and alterations. The building has walls of rubble with ashlar dressings, and thatched roofs.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey map 1:10,560, 1962 (Map). SDO18658.

(ST 83301874) Lower Hartgrove Farm (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 75 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(18) Lower Hartgrove Farm (83301874), house, of one storey with dormer-windowed attics, has rubble walls with ashlar dressings, and thatched roofs. No longer a dwelling, the building is now used for animals. It was built in the 17th century, and heightened and altered internally, probably in the 19th century. There is evidence for two original staircases. The N. front has a doorway with a chamfered, four-centred head surmounted by a window, lighting the ground-floor passage, with three square-headed lights under a moulded label. Flanking the doorway are stone windows of four square-headed lights with labels; the mullions have dated scratchings of 1681 and later. The N. windows in the upper storey are of the 19th century. The W. front has stone windows and a doorway, as on the N. except that the doorway has no window above it. The E. front has similar openings; the window adjacent to the E. doorway is set at a high level, showing that the stairs which it lights are in the original position. The S. window of the S. wing is of the 19th century.

Inside, the E. room has a six-panel ceiling with intersecting chamfered beams, and a large open fireplace; an original staircase window on the N. of the chimneybreast shows that there always was a stair in this position although the present narrow wooden stair is of the 19th century. The window above the N. doorway proves that the passage is original. The S. room has a dado of 17th-century oak panelling with beaded stiles and rails. The chamber over the E. room has a stone fireplace surround with a chamfered four-centred head and continuous jambs with shaped stops.'

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 206040 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Oct 15 2022 3:58PM