Listed Building record MDO10184 - Manor Farmhouse, Bishops Caundle

Late eighteenth century farmhouse, though possibly with an earlier core. Coursed rubble walls, stone slate roof with gable ends and end stone stacks.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 16 (Monograph). SDO146.

‘The following late 18th or early 19th-century farmhouses and cottages are built of rubble in two storeys, or in one storey with dormer-windowed attics. Most have thatched roofs. Unless noted otherwise the buildings are simple ranges with approximately symmetrical three-bay fronts, having central doorways, casement windows on either side and three corresponding first-floor windows. … (12) Manor Farm (69801325), 200 yds. N.E. of the church, repeats the characteristics of (10) but has been extended to the W. in two storeys and to the E. in one storey. Further two-storied extensions occur to the N.’

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Mar 24 2015 4:56PM