Listed Building record MDO13515 - Stalbridge Park Farmhouse, Stalbridge

Early nineteenth century farmhouse with symmetrical façade. Thought to incorporate some fragments of stonework from an earlier building, presumably the manor house built around 1600 and demolished in 1822.

Park Farm, house, about 50 yards north west of the manor house site, is of two storeys with attics and has rendered walls and stone slated roofs; it is probably of the first half of the 19th century. The south front is symmetrical and of five bays, with a central doorway and mullioned and transomed two light windows in both storeys at the base is a rubble plinth with an ashlar capping. In the middle bay the capping is hollow chamfered and roil moulded and this is presumably a fragment from the manor house; the same mouldings occur more consistently in the plinths of the east and west walls; elsewhere the capping is chamfered. The middle bay of the south front has a 19th century ashlar porch, on each side of which is reset an early 17th century shell headed stone niche. <2>

Park Farm, name confirmed, remains as described by Authority 2. It incorporates probable fragments from the 17th century Manor House, (ST 71 NW 1), but is not an outstanding building. <3>

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1900, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch two (Map). SDO11594.

(ST 73121817) Park Farm

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 250 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(4) Remains of the Manor House, now destroyed, are found in Stalbridge Park, 200 yds. W. of the church, on a gentle declivity with extensive views to the S. across the Stour valley. From Hutchins's engraving (III, opp. 670) the former house appears to have been of c. 1600. In Leland's time the manor house had been on the S. side of the church and the 17th-century building must therefore have been erected on a new site; it was demolished in 1822 and nothing remains except the park wall, a 17th-century gateway, earthworks, a walled kitchen garden and some fragments of stonework that are built into an adjacent farmhouse…. Park Farm, house, about 50 yds. N.W. of the manor house site, is of two storeys with attics and has rendered walls and stone-slated roofs; it is probably of the first half of the 19th century. The S. front is symmetrical and of five bays, with a central doorway and mullioned and transomed two-light windows in both storeys; at the base is a rubble plinth with an ashlar capping. In the middle bay the capping is hollow-chamfered and roll-moulded and this is presumably a fragment from the manor house; the same mouldings occur more consistently in the plinths of the E. and W. walls; elsewhere the capping is chamfered. The middle bay of the S. front has a 19th-century ashlar porch, on each side of which is reset an early 17th-century shell-headed stone niche.’

<3> Barrett, G, Various, Field Investigators Comments GB, F1 GB 13-NOV-78 (Unpublished document). SDO17369.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 202234 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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