Listed Building: LOWER BAGBER FARMHOUSE (102488)

ST 71 NE STURMINSTER NEWTON PENTRIDGE LANE Bagber Lower Bagber Farmhouse 2/68 4.10.60 II House, dated 1589, extensive remodelling dated 1863. Coursed rubble, squared dressed rubble and ashlar, slate roof with gable ends. Stone stacks at gables and projecting from front right wall. U plan. Western arm of rubble and may be the oldest part. Projecting 2 storey front porch is probably C19. South facade: 2 storeys and attic. 2, and 4-light square headed stone mullioned windows with hollow chamfers. The ground floor left windows have a continuous square returned label which abuts the porch without returning. To the right of the porch is a projecting stack. 3 Cl9 gabled dormers with wooden 2-light, 4 pane casements in roof. The east front has some ovolo-moulded stone mullioned windows. Internally there are deep chamfered stopped beams in the west and boxed beams in the east. Central newel stair to the north. Roof retains heavy trusses with cambered collar beams under a C19 roof structure in both wings. The east wing has room with C19 panelling. Porch has reset datestone. "RCHM Dorset Vol III", HMSO, 1970, p285 No 68. Listing NGR: ST7667615691

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