Listed Building record MDO13980 - Lazerton Farmhouse, Stourpaine

A two-storey farmhouse with attics built in the early seventeenth century, with nineteenth-century additions on the west side. The building has walls of ashlar, rubble and brick and a modern slate roof. The interior of the building contains numerous original features including panelling. The original plan seems to have comprised two rooms separated by a central cross passage with a rear stair tower. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

(ST 86381032) Lazerton Farm (NAT). <1>

Lazerton Farm house is two-storied with attics and has walls of ashlar, rubble and brick, and roofs covered with modern slates; the east range was built in the first half of the 17th century and there are 19th century additions on the west. <2>

A number of earthworks to the south of Lazerton Farm seen on aerial photographs taken in 2005. These probably represent old field boundaries and possibly pathways. <4>

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

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 261, No 2 plan (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(2) LAZERTON FARM (86381032), house, 5/8 m. N. of the church, is two-storied with attics and has walls of ashlar, rubble and brick, and roofs covered with modern slates; the E. range (Plate 57) was built in the first half of the 17th century and there are 19th-century additions on the W.
The original E. front, of ashlar, is symmetrical, with five bays on the ground floor and three on the first floor; at the base is a chamfered plinth. The central doorway has an added porch with two stone Ionic columns and side walls supporting a flat wooden hood with a moulded cornice. The ground-floor windows are of four square-headed lights, with chamfered and hollow-chamfered surrounds, hollow-chamfered stone mullions and hollow-chamfered labels; a few of the lights have been blocked. The first floor has two four-light windows flanking a central two-light window. The gabled N. wall is of coursed rubble, partly rendered; the ground-floor window is modern but the attic has a small original light with a chamfered and hollow-chamfered surround. The gabled S. wall is of ashlar, with a chamfered ashlar plinth continuing from the E. front. On the ground floor is a mullioned three-light window, as before described, and the first and attic floors have windows from which the stone mullions have been removed. The N. and S. gables have moulded and weathered copings. The W. elevation is partly masked by 19th-century additions but the W. wall of the original stair bay, which projects from the main block, is exposed; it is gabled and has ashlar quoins; a stone two-light window occurs at mezzanine level and there is a single light above.
Inside, the E. range comprises two ground-floor rooms and a central through-passage. The S. room has late 18th-century fielded pine panelling with a moulded dado rail and a moulded wooden cornice. The N. room has, in the W. wall, an open fireplace with a four-centred hollow-chamfered stone head with sunk spandrels in an ogee-moulded rectangular surround; the mouldings are continuous on the jambs and end in shaped stops. A two-light window to the N. of the fireplace now opens into a room of the 19th-century W. wing; to the S. a square-headed stone doorway, with an old plank door, opens into the stair bay. From the stair bay a doorway with a chamfered four-centred head, originally external, now leads into the W. wing. The doorway from the through-passage to the stair bay has chamfered stone jambs; the head is concealed. At the centre of the stair well is a cylindrical oak newel-post, continuous from ground to attic; from the first floor to the attic the original winders radiate from the newel, but in the lower storey the newel stairs have been removed and an 18th-century straight flight with turned balusters and a moulded handrail has been substituted. The first-floor rooms have panelled dadoes, and one room has a moulded ceiling cornice and a bolection-moulded fireplace surround; in the attic is a small stone fireplace with a chamfered four-centred head.’

<3> DOE (HHR), 1985, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: North Dorset District, 24-Jun-1985 (Scheduling record). SDO17732.

<4> National Monuments Record, 17-NOV-2005, NMR ST 8610/16 (24132/02) (Aerial Photograph). SDO18660.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 206193 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 10 2022 2:25PM