Listed Building record MDO23731 - Ashton Farmhouse, Ashton, Winterborne St Martin

Early to mid nineteenth century farmhouse, with coursed and squared limestone walls and a slate roof, half hipped at both ends, with a rendered stack.

Detached farmhouse. Early mid C19. Coursed and squared limestone walls. Slate roof, half hipped at both ends, parallel ridges. Rendered stack, behind ridge, right of centre. Double pile plan. Two storeys and attics. 3 windows, sashes with glazing bars, projecting and dropped plain keystones, stone cills. Front door at centre, 6 panelled with a reeded surround, fanlight with radiating glazing bars over. Projecting imposts and keystone and ashlar stone voussoirs, early C19. Rendered east end, has full set of sashes, including attics. Outbuilding on west end, single storey under a hipped slate roof. (1) There was an access portal to the roof which had a lead coping. On this coping were scratched various signatures and dates, of which the earliest was by a member of the Samways family and dated 1818. The lead has been removed and its whereabouts is unknown. The house may originally have been built by Henry Tizard in 1759. (2)

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Jun 3 2014 11:10AM