Listed Building record MDO10962 - Barn 90M West of Charity Farmouse, Litton Cheney

Barn, C15 now truncated and much altered internally. C15 core, (walls and roof). Coursed dressed stone walls. 4 buttresses with moulded plinths and diagonal corner-buttresses. North east angle of the truncated structure possesses the jamb of a former entrance arch. Bay 2 (from the south) has a 4-centred doorhead with straight- chamfered jambs. Plank stable-doors. RCHM Dorset I, p 136 (7).

The house is of 17thc. origin, but much altered in the 18thc. The barn; W. of the house is now of four bays, with stone buttresses. At the NE angle is the jambs of a former gateway, at right angles to the main building. The barn is of 17thc. origin. <2>

The house and buildings are still called CHARITY FARM. <3>

The house is of stone, with modern windows and a slate roof. The house is in good condition but shows little external evidence of antiquity.
The barn, 75.0m. W of the house is of stone with a slate roof, and is as described in T.1. <4>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 136 (Monograph). SDO97.

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 27-APR-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3.1> Trenchard, A, Oral: Mrs A Trenchard (occupier), Charity Farm, Litton Cheney (Verbal communication). SDO20349.

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F2 NVQ 27-APR-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

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

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Dec 10 2023 7:53AM