Building record MDO45283 - Bussey Stool Farmhouse, Tarrant Gunville

17th century farmhouse which has been much altered. Built from brick, flint and rubble with random blocks of ashlar and ashlar quoins. The roof is tiled.

ST 9282 1476: Bussey Stool Farm (NAT). <1>

Bussey Stool Farmhouse is partly of two storeys and partly single storeyed with attics. The walls are partly of brick and partly of flint and rubble with random blocks of ashlar and ashlar quoins. The roof is tiled.

Originally 17th century, much altered. <2>

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

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 94 (Monograph). SDO99.

(5) Bussey Stool Farm (92821476), house, partly of two storeys and partly single-storeyed with attics, has walls partly of brick and partly of flint and rubble with random blocks of ashlar, and ashlar quoins; the roofs are tiled. The original 17th-century range was single-storeyed and had a class-I plan. (fn. 1) Early in the 18th century a two-storeyed brick-built wing was added on the W. side of the range, at the N. end, and soon afterwards the N. end of the 17th-century range was refaced in brickwork and increased in height to correspond with the wing, thus creating a two-storeyed N. elevation of four bays, with square-headed casement windows, simple brick pilasters, and a brick dentil eaves cornice. Inside, the ground-floor rooms of the 17th-century range have stop-chamfered ceiling beams; several rooms in the attic have doors with 17th-century moulded panelling, one of them hung on original wrought-iron hinges. The first-floor room of the 18th-century wing has fielded panelling in two heights, and a fireplace surround and overmantel with bolection-moulded wood panelling.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 210266 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 26 2023 4:57PM