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An old-style photo of different styles of architecture in medieval timber-framed buildings. The nature of the subject is a model is slightly betrayed in the shadows cast by the adjacent boarder hedge, but these have been played to advantage in creating an older scene, perhaps an evening scene overshadowed by clouds and/or mountains. Note the varying styles of timber framing in the different buildings.
Fiddleford Mill House survives well as a good example of its class and listed as Grade I.
Pevsner described it as ‘the most spectacular medieval manor house interior in Dorset’
The main parts of the house are quite grand for its time and the main features give an impression of what a medieval Dorset house may have been like.
It’s unusual in that much of what can be seen represents the original 14th century building, the timber roof is largely original and many of the interior features have been retained.
The 14th century Manorial Residence includes the hall, two storey solar and the remains of the west range. The standing buildings include part of the hall and the solar.
'The roof trusses are standard West Country construction, collar beams arched braces, with two tiers of wind-braces against the rafters.
Bold cusping of wind-braces and decorated panels above the collar, boldly cut out in trefoils and quatrefoils, elaborate the system and many Ogee curves.'
'The solar roof is more elaborate than the Hall with the wind-braces sub-cusped, longitudinal braces spring from the collars and there are horizontal braces too, all arched and cusped.
The solar roof is a 'triumph' creating a complex spatial effect.'
Pevsner