Listed Building record MDO11013 - Upton Manor Farmhouse, Loders

A detached 16th century farmhouse with a rebuilt lower end (byre) dated 1655 and an early 18th century extension at the upper end. Built from coursed rubble-stone walls, with dressed stone walls at the right hand and thatch roof with stone gable-copings.

The house was built in the 16th c and has a 17th c extension on the NE and an 18th c wing on the N.W. On an added gable is a store with the date 1655. <2>

Known as UPTON MANOR FARM I know nothing of its history <3.1> . A well preserved stone built farmhouse with mullioned windows with dripstones in the south west but otherwise lacking external features of dateable antiquity. Dating in T2 accepted. <3>

Date stone as in T2 bears the inscription ie 1655. Situated on the S.W gable. <4>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1931 (Map). SWX1540.

[SY 51149353] UPTON MANOR FARM [T.I]

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 140 (Monograph). SDO97.

<3> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 02-MAY-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<3.1> Ascott, Mrs, Oral: Mrs Ascott (tenant), Upton Manor Farmhouse, Loder (Verbal communication). SDO19797.

<4> Colquhoun, F D, Field Investigators Comments FDC, F2 FDC 10-MAY-55 (Unpublished document). SWX2609.

<5> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 256 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451307 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 22 2024 2:15PM