Listed Building record MDO27637 - Street Farmhouse (formerly Lovell's Farm), Burton Street, Marnhull

A house built in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century, with and eighteenth century extension to the east and an early nineteenth century north wing. The building has walls of coursed rubble walls with interlocking tile roof and central brick chimney stack.

ST77511938. Lovell's Farm. The South range has a symmetrical South front probably of the C17th. It was extended to the East in the C18th and a wing was built northwards from the East end of the extension in the early C19th. <1>

Named as Street Farm on OS 2500 1981 at ST77511938. <2>

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 158 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(37) LOVELL'S FARM (77511938), 1,000 yds. N.W. of the church, is of two storeys with dormer-windowed attics; it has walls of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, and roofs of tiles and stone-slates. The S. range has a symmetrical S. front and is probably of the 17th century. It was extended to the E. in the 18th century and a wing was built northwards from the E. end of the extension early in the 19th century. The original part of the S. front has a rubble plinth and is of two bays with a central doorway; above the ground-floor window heads is a continuous weathered and hollow-chamfered string-course. The windows of both storeys are of three square-headed lights with recessed and beaded stone architraves and beaded mullions; the doorway surround is similar, with the addition of a fluted keystone. Over the doorway is a segmental wooden hood with a dentilled cornice and shaped brackets. The E. extension has neither plinth nor string and the window surrounds are of wood. The N. wing is of roughly coursed rubble, with tiled roofs with stone-slate verges; the windows are of wood. Projecting N. from the W. part of the original S. range is a gabled N.W. wing. It has wood-framed windows with 18th-century leaded iron casements on the ground and first floors; the attic window has modern casements; all these openings are spanned by long timber lintels. In the E. wall is a small circular first-floor window with a recessed ashlar surround and radial leaded glazing.
Inside, the room at the W. end of the original range has 18th-century fielded panelling, in two heights, with moulded dado rails and cornices. In a cupboard beside the 18th-century fireplace are preserved the chamfered stone jamb and continuous wooden bressummer of an open fireplace. S. of the fireplace is an external doorway, now blocked up and used as a cupboard. The partition between this room and the entrance vestibule is of plank-and-muntin construction with beaded edges. Several ground-floor rooms have deeply chamfered ceiling beams. A window pane has a scratching of 1738.’

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1980s, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 map, epoch six, 1981 (Map). SDO13933.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 888464 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 23 2024 11:55AM