Listed Building record MDO9566 - Minchington Farmhouse, Miller's Lane, Minchington, Sixpenny Handley

Farmhouse built using squared rubble and flint walls with brick and stone dressings. The roof is thatched. Late 16th to early 17th century date.

(ST 96171495) Minchington Farm (NAT). <1>

Minchington farmhouse, a late 16th or early 17th century house of two storeys, has walls of squared rubble and flint, with brick and stone dressings, and a thatched roof. <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 12 (Monograph). SDO129.

‘(12) MINCHINGTON FARM (96171495), house, of two storeys, has walls of squared rubble and flint, with brick and stone dressings, and a thatched roof; it is of the late 16th or early 17th century. The plan is of class T, with an original N. wing, centrally placed, at right-angles to the main S. range. The three-bay S. front retains in the lower storey an original casement window of three square-headed lights with moulded stone surrounds; a similar two-light window occurs in the upper storey; the other openings are modern. Inside, the throughpassage between the two main ground-floor rooms, flanked by moulded plank-and-muntin partitions, is occupied by a secondary staircase. The E. ground-floor room has an open fireplace with chamfered stone jambs and a chamfered and cambered oak bressummer. The ground-floor room in the N. wing has a large chamfered beam.’

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 210110 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Feb 14 2023 12:53PM