Listed Building record MDO10326 - Outbuilding 10m east of Binghams Melcombe House, Melcombe Horsey

The outbuilding including barn and stabling is probably 17th Century. The walls are of rubble, squared dressed rubble, banded flint and rubble with some brick, with a thatched, half-hipped roof. It is one and a half storeys, windows are irregularly placed containing 2 and 3-light casements with glazing bars.

GREENBACK List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Scheduling record). SDO19706.

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

‘(2) Bingham's Melcombe (771021), house and outbuildings, stands in a broad shallow valley at the head of the Devil's Brook, between Henning Hill and Coombe Hill. … A number of ancillary buildings etc. stand near the house, in the formal gardens and in the park to the S. The 18th-century Barn incorporating stabling, close N.E., is of rubble and thatch. The Ice House, 20 yds. N., is an early 19th-century structure beneath an earth mound. Some 30 yds. N.N.W. is a circular rubble-built Dovecote of the late 17th century, with a conical roof (Plate 158). ‘

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Aug 22 2025 1:27PM