Listed Building record MDO9201 - Old Parsonage Farm House, Middle Street, Dewlish

Detached farmhouse. Late C17. Brick walls in English bond with two stretcher courses to one of headers, but Flemish bond occurs at the south east corner. West and north walls are of banded brick and flint up to the first floor. Where walls are of brick they have plinths below, plat bands at first floor level and coved plaster cornices at the eaves. Clay tile roofs with stone slates in lower courses and are hipped at every corner except at the west end of the south range; this is gabled and crowned by a large brick stack.

Dewlish Higher Farmhouse (alias Parsonage Farm). <3>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 77739840) Dewlish Higher Farm (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 86-88 (Monograph). SDO146.

'(4) Dewlish Higher Farm, 300 yds. N.E. of the church, is a farmhouse of two storeys with attics, set out on a half-H plan with the opening to the small courtyard to the N. and the main front facing S. It is of the late 17th or early 18th century. The walls are principally of brick in English bond, with two stretcher courses to one of headers, but Flemish bond occurs at the S.E. corner; the W. and N. walls are of banded brick and flint up to the first floor. Where the walls are of brick they have plinths below, plat-bands at first-floor level, and coved plaster cornices at the eaves. The roofs are tiled, with stone-slates in the lower courses, and are hipped at every corner except at the W. end of the S. range, which is gabled and crowned by a large brick chimney-stack. The S. front now has sashed windows but these are secondary; an original four-light casement with moulded wooden mullions is preserved on the N. side. A shallow round-headed recess occurs in the E. part of the S. front; it is outlined in stretcher bricks and embellished with brick imposts and a brick keystone; within the recess the wall is rendered. Internally no notable features are visible.'

<3> Ministry of Housing and Local Government, 1951, Provisional Historic Houses Record Dorchester Rural District October 1951, 27 (Scheduling record). SDO19777.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454603 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Jul 31 2023 10:55AM