Listed Building record MDO13951 - Peggs Farm, Iwerne Minster

Late eighteenth century house, in header bond brickwork, with a tiled roof with stone-slate margins and end brick stacks. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

PEGG'S FARM (851155), in the N.W. of the parish, comprises a farmhouse, a cottage, a water-mill and a barn. The House, two-storeyed with header-bonded brick walls and with tiled roofs with stone-slate verges, is of the 18th century; in the Salisbury Journal, 18 July 1774, it is advertised as new-built. The S. front is symmetrical and of three bays, with a central doorway and with wooden casement windows of two and three lights. The gabled E. and W. end walls culminate in brick chimney-stacks. The Cottage, adjoining the house on the N., is two-storeyed, with Flemish-bonded brick walls and with a tiled roof; it is of 18th-century date, but later than the house. The Mill, adjoining the house on the W., has ashlar walls and tiled roofs and dates from c. 1800. The mill-wheel is now used to generate electricity. The Barn, some 60 yds. E. of the house, has walls of rubble and of brick, and a thatched roof. The rubble occurs at the base of the walls in the N. part of the building and is probably of the 17th century; the brickwork represents 18th-century rebuilding. At intervals the walls are strengthened with brick buttresses. The roof rests on crude tie-beam trusses, strutted in some places, with rough hammerbeams below. <2-3>

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

(ST 851155) Pegg's Farm (NAT) Mill (NAT).

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 39 (Monograph). SDO99.

<3> DOE (HHR), Oct 1951, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Shaftesbury RD, 12 (Scheduling record). SDO17584.

Oct 1951

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 206000 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 22 2022 11:19AM