Listed Building record MDO13338 - Higher Dairy Farmhouse, Tarrant Launceston

A farmhouse built in the seventeenth century. The two-storey building has walls of flint and squared rubble. Once thatched, the roof is tile with brick chimney stacks.

ST 93990979. A two storeyed 17th century farmhouse with walls of flint and squared rubble and a thatched roof. The inscription '1669 RW' has been incised on the wooden head of the fireplace. <2>

Thatch now replaced by tiled roof with brick end stacks. <3>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1976 (Map). SDO17396.

(ST 93990979) Higher Dairy (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 105 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(1) Higher Dairy (93990979), a two-storeyed farmhouse with walls of flint and squared rubble and with a thatched roof, is of 17th-century origin. The class-T plan has been somewhat altered, but both ground-floor rooms retain chamfered beams with shaped stops. A fireplace bressummer has the incised inscription '1669 RW' in a roundel.'

<3> DOE (HHR), 1985, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: North Dorset, 28 (Scheduling record). SDO17644.

<34> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209427 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 9 2023 4:40PM