Listed Building record MDO13752 - Child Okeford House, Haywards Lane, Child Okeford

A house comprising a service range thought to be of 17th-century date and an 18th-century range with 19th-century additions. The walls of the building are partly of brick and partly flint, in places covered in render. The older part of the building is of flint with ashlar dressings. The interior is reported to have been substantially altered, though 17th-century beams and panelling and some 18th-century features survive.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey map 1:10,560, 1962 (Map). SDO18658.

(ST 83381275) Child Okeford House (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 81 (Monograph). SDO146.

'(3) CHILD OKEFORD HOUSE (83381275), 170 yds. W. of the church, is two-storied with attics; the walls are partly of flint, partly of brick and partly rendered. It comprises an 18th-century N.–S. range with mid 19th-century additions and, to the E., a service range with walls that are of flint with ashlar dressings, probably of the 17th century.

The front doorway, in the S. end wall of the 18th-century range, has a round head with a moulded hood on scrolled brackets. The W. front has three sashed windows and a doorway on the ground floor, and five small sashed windows on the first floor; a late 19th-century bay projects W. at the N. end. The E. side of the range has 18th-century brickwork in the upper part, but below the brickwork the E. wall is of flint with occasional blocks of ashlar; it is probably of the 17th century. The re-entrant S.E. angle with the E. range is built with ashlar blocks and the S. wall of the E. range has a flint plinth capped with chamfered ashlar. Internally the house has been extensively altered; there are some moulded beams, and one room is lined with reset 17th-century oak panelling above an 18th-century dado. The drawing room fireplace has an 18th-century surround.'

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 206294 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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