Listed Building record MDO11051 - Looke Farmhouse, Puncknowle

A detached Farmhouse, dated R and M H 1700 on door lintel. Built of shallow rubble-stone walls, with dressed stone quoins and a hipped stone slab and slate roof. There is an attached range at right hand end, which is a former C18 kitchen block, built of rubble-stone walls and a slate roof with stone gable-coping.

Look Farm is of two storeys with cellars and attics. It was built in 1700 on a rectangular plan with chimney-stacks at the angles and a hipped roof. The central doorway on the S. front has the initials and date R. and M.H. 1700 on the lintel. The outbuilding SSW of the house was built probably in the 18th century. <1>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 190-1 (Monograph). SDO97.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1968 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 54828883) Look Farm (NAT)

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450543 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Apr 11 2023 5:17PM