Building record MDO44884 - Old Homestead Fontmell Farm, Child Okeford

FONTMELL FARM (82961478), house, is an early 18th-century two-storied farmhouse, with brick walls with rubble plinths and ashlar quoins; the roof is mostly of stone-slates. The entrance, in the W. part of the six-bay S. front, has a 19th-century gabled brick porch with ashlar quoins and a chamfered elliptical stone head to the opening. The square-headed doorway inside the porch has a chamfered stone lintel and jambs. Traces of another doorway occur in the E. part of the S. front. The level of the first floor is marked by a brick platband. <2>

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

(ST 82961478) Fontmell 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, 81 (Monograph). SDO146.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1984 (Map). SDO17396.

(ST 82961478) Old Homestead (NAT)

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 206290 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 28 2022 5:05PM