Listed Building record MDO9493 - Ryall's Farmhouse, Gussage St Michael

Farmhouse, originally single storeyed but heightened to two storeys. The building is of 16th century origin with 17th and 18th century additions.

(ST 98111261) Ryall's Farm (NAT). <2>

Ryall's Farm house, originally single storeyed but heightened to two storeys, has walls partly of rubble and flint with ashlar quoins, partly of timber frame construction and partly of brickwork. The roofs are tiled. The building is of 16th century origin with 17th and 18th century additions. <3>

<1> DOE (HHR), 1951, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Wimborne and Cranborne RD, 6 (Scheduling record). SDO17339.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 23-4 No 5 Photo & Plan (Monograph). SDO129.

‘(5) RYALL'S FARM (98111261), house, originally single-storeyed, but heightened to two storeys, has walls partly of rubble and flint with ashlar quoins, partly of timber-frame construction, and partly of brickwork; the roofs are tiled (Plate 30). The building is of 16th-century origin, with 17th and 18th-century additions.
The E. range has a class-T plan, with a broad central throughpassage leading to a porch and projecting stair bay on the W.; the W. doorway is blocked. The partition between the N. room and the through-passage is not original; formerly there is likely to have been a screen, perhaps set further S. Of the original building only the gabled N. and S. end walls remain; they are of banded rubble and flint with ashlar dressings and moulded copings; each has a massive chimney breast with weathered offsets and with two diagonally set brick flues. The original E. and W. walls of the 16th-century range are likely to have been of timber framework, but the W. wall together with the stair bay is now of brick, probably of the 17th century. The former porch has a bull's-eye window with a moulded brick surround; the blocked W. doorway has a segmental head. In the two-storeyed E. front, the brickwork of the lower storey appears to be of the 18th century, that of the upper storey is evidently later. In the W. wing also, the external brickwork of the lower storey is older than that of the attic.
Inside, the S. room of the E. range has an open fireplace with a chamfered timber bressummer with a raised centre, and chamfered stone jambs with run-out stops; the ceiling beam also is chamfered. A round-headed recess beside the blocked N. fireplace has 18th-century woodwork with a moulded architrave and fluted pilasters. On the first floor, the S. chamber has a fireplace with a chamfered timber head with a raised centre, and chamfered stone jambs. Some first-floor rooms have doorways with chamfered surrounds, heads with raised centres and doors with iron strap-hinges with scrolled ends. A partition between the stair well and a first-floor closet is of timber-frame construction and retains an original window with wooden bars.’

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 210117 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Nov 21 2022 10:18AM