Listed Building record MDO10658 - Farrs, 3 Whitcombe Road, Beaminster

Detached house of L-shaped plan, of 17th century date with an early 18th century south range. It is of two storeys plus attics, with ashlar stone walls and slate roofs. There are some good quality 18th century internal features.

(ST 48190115) Farrs is a stone house of two storeys with attics. The north wing is 17th century; the main block forming the west wing of the L-shaped plan was added early in the 18th century.

<1> DOE (HRR), 1950, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Beaminster Rural District 1950, 7 (Scheduling record). SDO17358.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 23-24 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(7) FARRS, house 310 yards E.S.E of the church, is of two storeys with attics; the walls are of stone and the roofs are covered with stone slates. The middle part of the N. wing was built in the 17th century and subsequently extended towards the N. Early in the 18th century the main block, forming the W. wing of the L-shaped plan, was added with the staircase-wing at the back. The early 18th century S. front has a central doorway with architrave, entablature, consoles and pediment; the two ranges of stone windows are of two lights and those to the ground floor have labels. At the back are similar windows and an oriel-window lighting the staircase. The doorway between the staircase-wings is an 18th-century insertion and has a wooden architrave and pediment; the second staircase-wing is modern. The original part of the house retains a four-light window with a label to the kitchen and a two-light window above it; there are windows of the same character on the E. face of the wing. Inside the building, the kitchen retains its original fireplace with moulded jambs and four-centred head. The 18th century wing has plaster cornices with bay-leaf decoration and, at the E. end, a fireplace with marble slips and a wood surround of c. 1750 (Plate 48) with carved side-scrolls, frieze and cornice-shelf; the rococo enrichment in the frieze includes a heron and C-scrolls.'

<3> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 86 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<4> Department of the Environment, 1983, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: District of West Dorset, 58 (Scheduling record). SDO16336.

<5> Ordnance Survey, 20-JUL-1989, OS OS/89388 043-4, 193059 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14379.

Record last edited

Mar 28 2022 2:40PM