Listed Building record MDO13661 - Tanyard, Penny Street, Ham Gate, Sturminster Newton

House, late fifteenth or early sixteenth century in origin, alterations in late sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Walls of rendered, whitewashed rubble, timber framing and possibly cob. Thatched roof with gable ends. The house originally was an open hall.

(ST 78891393, house sited from OS 10000 1983 and map with Auth 1). Late 15th or early 16th century house, originally of 3 bays with timber framed walls and 4 cruck or jointed-cruck roof-tremes. The two eastern bays were probably an open-roofed hall while the west bay was of two storeys. Alterations from the late 16th-18th centuries. <1>

Tanyard, formerly as No.15, Tan Yard. Grade II. <2>

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 279-280 (Monograph). SDO136.

<2> DOE (HRR), 1984, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: District of North Dorset, 57 (Scheduling record). SDO17668.

Oct-1983

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1001617 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Aug 23 2024 3:15PM