Listed Building: LORTON FARMHOUSE AND DAIRY (467471)

WEYMOUTH SY6683 DORCHESTER ROAD, Broadwey 873-1/8/419 (West side) 14/06/74 No.541 Lorton Farmhouse and Dairy (Formerly Listed as: DORCHESTER ROAD, Broadwey No.541 Lorton Farmhouse) GV II Farmhouse. Early C19 and later C19. Squared and coursed stone, slate low-pitched hipped roof, but hipped thatch to the dairy unit. A symmetrical front range with rear range attached by wing. 2 storeys, 3 windows, 2-light wood casements with transom, the upper lights with pointed tracery bars at first floor, and 3-light similar casements, slightly projecting from the wall plane, under a stone hipped head and with stone jambs and lintels at ground floor each side of a projecting porch with coped gable on kneelers, and pair of plank doors to a stone lintel with key; at the time of survey the porch without roof finish. Centred to the ridge are 3 linked octagonal stone stacks. The left return is plain, and the back has a 3-light casement at eaves level. The attached later range has a slate hipped roof, with large paired plain sashes in brick dressings, and a rear stack. The lower dairy, attached, right, by a short section of slated roof, is in 2 storeys, with 1 above two 2-light casements behind pierced cast-iron screens. The hipped end has a 3-light casement above a 2-light with grille, and the rear has a single-storey lean-to. INTERIOR: not inspected. (RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 359). Listing NGR: SY6672883131

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