Listed Building: JOLLIFFE'S FARMHOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED BARN (102798)

ST 82 SW STOUR PROVOST STOUR ROW 3/168 16.8.60 Jolliffe's Farmhouse including attached barn GV II* House C16 or earlier origin but most features are C17. Squared, coursed rubble. Gable-ended tiled roof with end brick stacks. 2 storeys and attic. 4 window range. Ground floor has outer bays with 4-light ovolo moulded, stone mullioned windows. Centre right is a similar 2-light window. Door centre left. Continuous string course stepped up over window and door heads. The upper floor has 4 3-light wooden mullioned moulded windows with leaded -lights. 2-light, stone mullioned window at mezzanine level lighting a staircase. Interior features: moulded (hollow chamfer and ogee) and deep chamfered ceiling beams and wall plates, those to the south room intersecting to form 4-panel ceiling; many plank and muntin partitions; north room has open fireplace with newel stair to one side; section of C17 balusters and rail; smoke-blackened collar truss roof with 2 sets of purlins and curved wind bracing. The roof appears to be older than the rest of the house and may either have been reset or indicate a very extensive C17 rebuilding. The attached barn is timber-framed and weather-boarded with a half-hipped tiled roof and C20 casements. It has been much modernised in the C20. RCHM, Dorset, vol IV, p 83/4, no 29. Newman J and Pevsner N, The Buildings of England: Dorset, Penguin, 1972, p 403. Listing NGR: ST8316821805

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