Listed Building record MDO4776 - Jolliffe's Farmhouse, Stour Provost

(ST 831218) Jolliffe's Farm (NAT). (1)

ST 83172182. Jolliffe's Farmhouse of two storeys with rubble walls is of the late 17th century and retains many original features. (2)

Jolliffe's Farmhouse including attached barn. House C16 or earlier origin but most features are C17. Grade II* (see list for details). (4)

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1968 (Map). SWX1540.

(ST 831218) Jolliffe's Farm (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 83-4 (Monograph). SDO99.

‘(29) JOLLIFFE'S FARM (83172182), house, of two storeys with rubble walls and slated roofs, is of the late 17th century and retains many original features. The plan is of class T. In the lower storey the E. front has windows of two and of four square-headed lights with ovolo-moulded stone surrounds; above them, a continuous weathered string-course descends to a lower level between each opening, as a label, and similarly follows the outline of the door-head. A stone window, set at mezzanine level on the S. of the doorway, lights the stairs and shows that these remain in their original position. The first-floor windows have moulded wooden surrounds. On the gabled N. wall the string-course continues, but it stops at the N.W. corner. The W. front has casement windows with chamfered wooden surrounds. The S. wall is masked by later buildings.
Inside, the hall on the S. has a large open fireplace, now partly filled in, with the remains of an oven on the E. and a small larder on the W.; the ceiling has deeply chamfered beams with moulded stops intersecting to form four panels; the S. wall-plate is chamfered and stopped in correspondence with the N.—S. beam. The middle room, perhaps a buttery, is divided from the N. room by an original plank-and-muntin partition with a moulded head; on the S. a small section of plank-and-muntin work encloses the main staircase. The stairs are modern, but a section of original balustrading remains at the first-floor landing; it has square newel posts with turned, ball-headed finials, stout turned balusters and moulded top and bottom rails. In the parlour on the N., the ceiling has a deeply chamfered beam with splay stops; adjacent to the blocked fireplace is a small newel staircase. The upper storey retains original plank-and-muntin partitions.’

<3> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 403 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<4> DOE (HRR), 1984, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: District of North Dorset, 56 (Scheduling record). SDO17668.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 206584 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Apr 27 2022 2:52PM