The villages of Stoke St. Mary, Thurlbear and Orchard Portman.

APLENS, STOKE ST. MARY

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View from Mount Pleasant showing (from left to right) Aplens, 
Stoke Farm, Stoke Cottage and  St. Mary's Church.
Photograph 2002 by alanprime

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Photograph by Liz and David Fothergill, Summer 2001.

Link to TDBC Listed Dwellings of Stoke St Mary.

APLENS (FORMERLY STOKE COURT FARMHOUSE), STOKE ST MARY
Grade : II List Entry Date : 25 February 1955

Farmhouse, now dwelling. Possibly late C17 incorporating earlier C16 wing, altered early C19, restored late C20. Roughcast over rubble and cob, thatched roofs, rendered stacks left gable end and to right of entrance, brick stack rising from eaves in kitchen wing. L-plan, site slopes away to east, 3-cell and cross passage facing north, agricultural building abutting west (not included). Two storeys, 1:4 bays, left under catslide of wing 3-light ovolo moulded mullioned window, 3-light steeply chamfered mullioned dormer windows flanking inserted 12-pane stair window below eaves above entrance, remains of similar 3-light dormer right, ground floor left C20 window in wing, 9-pane sash left of plank door, thatched roofed porch, right 3-light steeply chamfered mullioned window. Left return (east front) 3 bays, steep raking buttress and 3-light octagonal mullioned dormer, early C19 3-light leaded iron casement below right, similar steeply chamfered window on west front of wing. Interior not seen, said to contain chamfered beams with scroll stops in main block which has collar and principal roof, large chamfered transverse beam with deep stepped runouts in wing. The agricultural building now converted to a dwelling (Aplens Cottage) abutting west end not included.
(VAG Report, unpublished SRO, December 1974).
Source: TDBC Online Listed Buildings - Stoke St. Mary.

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