Listed Building record MDO10322 - Woodbridge Farmhouse, Holwell

A house built in the late 18th or early 19th century, incorporating what is thought likely to have been an 18th-century house at the rear. The house has a T-shaped plan. The walls are covered in render, though rubble is visible in the gable end walls. The earliest part is of brick, and both parts are thatched.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 123 (Monograph). SDO146.

‘(17) WOODBRIDGE FARM (71221235), house, is T-shaped in plan and is of two storeys with thatched roofs. The head of the T has a symmetrical S.W. front of three bays, rendered, and of the early 19th century; the gabled end walls are of rubble and are surmounted by chimneystacks. Behind, the rear wing of the 19th-century house is prolonged by a two-storied brick structure, now a store, which dates probably from the first half of the 18th century; this is likely to have been an earlier farmhouse. A plat-band decorates each side wall at first-floor level, and the eaves have simple brick cornices. On the S.E. side there were originally five evenly spaced and uniform rectangular first-floor windows, and there are traces of two corresponding ground-floor openings with segmental heads. The N.W. side had four openings on each floor, with segmental heads on the ground floor and with flat lintels on the first floor.’

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Mar 4 2021 4:35PM