Building record MDO45912 - Plumley Farmhouse, Winterborne Kingston

20/3 Farmhouse 30 yards NE of North Farm
House in brick of Flemish bond and tiled roof. 2s Casements
Flat string-course between floors. C.18. <1>

SY 86039765. Plumley Farmhouse, (not annotated on OS plans) has a single-storeyed west part of 17th century origin with cob, brick-faced and rendered walls and a dormer-windowed attic. The late 18th century, two-storeyed east part of the house has a four-bay south front of Flemish-bond brickwork patterned with blue headers. Farmhouse 30 yds east of North Farm. <2>

<1> DOE (HHR), 1954, List of Buildings of Special Historic or Architectural Interest: Blandford Rural District, 32 (Scheduling record). SDO17701.

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 301 (Monograph). SDO136.

'(2) Plumley Farm (86039765), house, stands 200 yds. W. of the church. The W. part of the house is of 17th-century origin and has walls partly of cob, partly brick-faced and partly rendered; it is single-storied with a dormer-windowed attic. The E. part is of the late 18th century and two-storied; it has a four-bay S. front of Flemish-bonded brickwork, patterned with blue headers and with a plat-band at first-floor level. Both parts of the house have modern tiled roofs.

Inside, the ground-floor rooms are spanned by chamfered beams. The attic chamber of the W. part has a fireplace with a cambered and chamfered timber bressummer. Over this is some 17th-century moulded plaster wall enrichment in which two sprays of acorns and oak leaves flank a central arabesque with tendrils, leaves and seed-pods; above is a fragment of another spray.'

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455803 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 15 2023 3:46PM