Listed Building record MDO10720 - Higher Farmhouse, Seaborough

A 17th century 2 storey farmhouse of ashlar and rubble-stone walls and an asbestos slate and slate roof which is hipped on the left hand side and stone gable-coping on the right.

Higher Farm is a two storeyed stone house with a slated roof, mainly 17th century but with a later west block. The east front retains its original stone-mullioned windows, the lower range having moulded labels. There is also a stone-mullioned window in the added block.

Inside the building is a reset fireplace with a four-centred head and the initials and date 'IB, PB 1628' To the south of the house is a small 17th century barn. <2>

Higher Farm (name confirmed by owner) is now used as a private residence and not as a farm. The description given by Authority 2 is correct, except that the barn, which is of stone with a timbered and thatched roof, lies immediately north of the house, not south as stated. <3>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1930 (Map). SWX1540.

(ST 42840616) Higher Farm (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 199 (Monograph). SDO97.

<3> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 01-MAR-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<3.1> Fullbrook-Leggatt, General, Oral: Gen Fullbrook-Leggatt (owner), Higher Farm, Seaborough (Verbal communication). SDO18784.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 192931 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Apr 17 2025 9:56AM