Listed Building record MDO9564 - Chapel Farmhouse, Gussage St Andrew, Sixpenny Handley

A farmhouse built in the early part of the seventeenth century, with extensive eighteenth-century extensions. The walls of the building are of banded flint and brick, and brick with ashlar dressings, and it has a tiled roof. Surviving original features of the interior are reported to include collared tie-beam trusses.

(ST 97591428) Chapel Farm (NAT). <1>

Chapel Farm house, of two storeys with walls partly of knapped flint, partly of banded brick and flint and partly of brick and ashlar dressings, dates from early in the 17th century. The roofs are tile covered. The original building had an L-shaped plan with the principal front on the north west and with a south east wing at the back. In the 18th century the north west range was extended on the north east, more than doubling its length. <2>

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

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 67, No 8 (Monograph). SDO129.

‘(8) CHAPEL FARM (97591428), house, of two storeys with walls partly of knapped flint, partly of banded brick and flint and partly of brick with ashlar dressings, dates from early in the 17th century. The roofs are tile-covered. The original building had an L-shaped plan with the principal front on the N.W. and with a S.E. wing at the back. In the 18th century the N.W. range was extended on the N.E., more than doubling its length.
The original N.W. front is of flint and squared stone blocks in courses alternating with double courses of brick; it is approximately symmetrical and of three bays, with a central doorway flanked in the lower storey by square-headed three-light casement windows with moulded stone surrounds and mullions, and with three-light casement windows with timber surrounds in the upper storey; at an intermediate level a stone two-light casement window opens over the doorway. The N.W. front of the 18th-century extension is also symmetrical and of three bays, but here the façade is of brick with ashlar quoins and the principal windows are sashed. In the rear elevation, to S.E., the outside wall of the original N.W. range is of neatly coursed knapped flint with squared rubble quoins. The S.E. wing is partly of flint and rubble and partly of knapped flint banded with brick; the quoins are of squared rubble. Inside, the house has been greatly altered and the original plan is lost. The roofs have collared tie-beam trusses, those of the 17th century range being stouter than those in the N.E. extension.’

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 210112 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Feb 14 2023 4:19PM