Listed Building record MDO11096 - South Eggardon Farmhouse, Askerswell

Sixteenth century or earlier detached farmhouse, with seventeenth century north east and south east ranges. Built in coursed, dressed stone with slate roofs, stone gable-copings and moulded kneelers.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 13 (Monograph). SDO97.

'South Eggardon House, about ¾ m. N.N.E. of the church, was built in the 16th century and extended N. in the 17th and 18th centuries; of the two E. wings, the northern is a 17th century addition of two dates. There are some stone-mullioned windows and in the S.E. wing are some reused stone windows with labels and two late mediaeval carved panels, one with a cross formy in a circle and the other with a quatrefoil in a circle and a patera in the middle. Inside the original part of the house is a muntin and plank partition and original moulded ceiling-beams; one room has a fireplace with moulded jambs and head. The inner doorway of the porch has a four-centred head with the scratched initials and date R.W. 1642. On the first floor one room has moulded ceiling-beams formerly making sixteen panels, but in part cut away.'

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey map 1:10,560, 1968 (Map). SDO18658.

(SY53559370) South Eggardon Farm [NAT]

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 884659 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Oct 30 2023 4:20PM