Listed Building record MDO10313 - Naish Farmhouse, Stoney Lane, Holwell

A hall house built in the fifteenth century with sixteenth-century and later additions and alterations. The building has walls of stone rubble and a thatched roof with brick chimney stack. Surviving features are reported to include partitions and roof timbers.

NAISH FARM (70561123), externally an undistinguished two-storied dwelling with rubble walls and a thatched roof, nevertheless retains many original features of a 15th-century farmhouse. It comprises a single-storied hall of three bays, with a solar and under croft at the N.E. end and service rooms at the S.W. end. In the 16th century the hall was chambered over and a large open fireplace was built; at the same time the N.E. Wall was rebuilt, and the service rooms were enlarged. The house, still fulfilling its original purpose, is a well-preserved specimen of its class and period. Although the small farmyard and ranges of buildings to N. and W. have no ancient features, they probably occupy the site of original buildings and combine with the house to illustrate the lay-out of a medieval farmstead. <2>

Naish Farm: name confirmed remains as described by RCHM <2>. In a generally good state of preservation, but now in need of a rethatching. <3>

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1927 (Map). SWX1197.

(ST 70561123) Naish Farm

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 122 (Monograph). SDO146.

<3> Barrett, G, Various, Field Investigators Comments GB, F1 GB 14-AUG-78 (Unpublished document). SDO17369.

<4> Historic England, Historic England Archive, BF029851 (Index). SDO14738.

NAISH FARM, HOLWELL: File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 202289 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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