Listed Building record MDO13525 - Hookswood House, Hookswood Common, Farnham

Hookswood House is partly of one storey with attics, and partly two storeyed. The single storeyed part has walls of rubble and flint with squared rubble quoins and dates from the late 16th or early 17th century. The two storeyed range is of the late 18th century.

(ST 94781510) Hookswood Farm (NAT). <2>

Hookswood farmhouse is partly of one storey with attics, and partly two storeyed. The single storeyed part has walls of rubble and flint with squared rubble quoins and dates from the late 16th or early 17th century. The two storeyed range is of the late 18th century. <1-3>

<1> DOE (HHR), 1954, List of Buildings of Special Historic or Architectural Interest: Blandford Rural District, 5 (Scheduling record). SDO17701.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 18 No 4 (Monograph). SDO99.

(4) Hookswood Farm (94781510), house, is partly of one storey with attics and partly two-storeyed. The single-storeyed part has walls of rubble and flint with squared rubble quoins and dates from the late 16th or early 17th century; the two-storeyed range is of the late 18th century. Inside, the older range contains two ground-floor rooms, each with an open fireplace; one room has a chamfered beam with splayed stops. In the 18th-century range several rooms have walls panelled in two heights, with beaded stiles and rails, and fielded panels.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209989 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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