Listed Building record MDO9567 - Lower Minchington Farmhouse, Minchington, Sixpenny Handley

(ST 97021455) Lower Farm (NAT). <1>

Lower Farm house, of two storeys with attics, has walls of flint and rubble, in part rendered, with ashlar quoins and dressings. It dates probably from circa 1600 and retains interesting fittings. <2>

Lower Minchington Farmhouse C1600. Grade II* (see list for details). <3>

<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 9, Plan (Monograph). SDO129.

‘(9) LOWER FARM, MINCHINGTON (97021455), house, of two storeys with attics, has walls of flint and rubble, in part rendered, with ashlar quoins and dressings; it dates probably from c. 1600 and retains interesting fittings.
The N. front is of three bays, with a stone doorway with a shallow four-centred head, flanked by square-headed casement windows with chamfered stone surrounds and labels; immediately over the door-head is a small stone window of one light; the upper storey has plain wood-framed casements. The W. and S. elevations have no notable features. In the E. elevation (Plate 30) a stone doorway with a shallow four-centred head gives access to the scullery, a single-storeyed structure with a lean-to roof on the S. of the kitchen chimneybreast. A vertical joint in the E. wall of the stair tower indicates that the tower was enlarged later in the 17th century.
Inside, the hall is divided from the adjacent through-passage by a 17th-century panelled oak partition brought recently from elsewhere; its two original doorways have been closed with later panelling and a central opening has been formed between them. On the W. of the through-passage is an original plankand-muntin partition with two doorways side-by-side near the centre (that on the N. subsequently blocked and replaced by another opening further N.). The stairs to the first floor are of the later 17th century and have a moulded handrail and turned balusters; above, the stairs are of c. 1600 and have solid oak treads radiating from a circular wooden newel-post. The kitchen ceiling has a deep stop-chamfered beam, and similar beams span the service rooms on the W. of the through-passage. Some first-floor rooms retain plank-and-muntin partitions; stud partitions in the attic have doorways with chamfered four-centred heads.’

<3> DOE (HHR), 1986, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Wimborne District, 38 (Scheduling record). SDO18076.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 210111 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Feb 14 2023 2:38PM