Listed Building record MDO14032 - Abbey House, Church Street, Abbotsbury

Detached House, former farmhouse and previously part of monastic buildings east of cloister. Fourteenth century material reused, seventeenth century and nineteenth century refashioning. Rubble-stone and dressed stone walls. Slate roof with stone gable-copings and scroll-kneeler at left hand end and half-hip at right hand end.

Detached House, former farmhouse and previously part of monastic buildings east of cloister. 50 yards S.S.E of the church. C14 material reused, C17 and C19 refashioning. Rubble-stone and dressed stone walls. Slate roof with stone gable-copings and scroll-kneeler at left hand end and half-hip at right hand end. Stone stack with castellated parapet at left hand gable. Brick stack right of centre, .C18. Two storeys and dormers. 4 windows (first-floor). Ground floor openings: square C19 2-light bay window with a hipped slate roof; 3-light cast-iron casement with a wooden lintel over; porch with a flush panel wooden door and hipped slate roof; 3-light bay window with a hipped slate roof; small rectangular window, medieval; 3-light C19. Wooden casement; single light wooden casement. First Floor:two 3-light C19 cast- iron casements with wooden cills and two 3-light wooden casements. 3 C20 dormers, 2-light casements. North ranges, C17, with stone gable coping and apex-block. 2-light wooden casements on west side. Fragments of C12 sculpture from the abbey built in. Adjoining wing abuts and has a stone slab roof, very tall gable-end chimney has a castellated parapet and set-offs. Interior: 2 back-to-back fire- places with dressed stone jambs and saw-cut wooden lintels and wooden lintel with large chamfer and stepped stops.

This description is derived from the associated designation record, the validity of which has not been checked.

The isolated archway is of later date than the monastic buildings and gave entrance to the Strangways house. <2>

Abbey House was built in the 17th century, but has 18th century additions on the east and west. About 80 yards west of the house is a 17th century archway across the road. <3>

Abbey House. A two storey residence with attics. Constructed of stone, the building has a roof partially modern but retaining some original stone'slates'. To the north face are two original stone windows. Dating in Auth. 2 accepted. The simple 17th c. arch, constructed of stone is a fragment of some larger building. <4>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1 to 25 inch scale map, 1902 (Map). SDO18020.

[SY 57818516] Abbey Farm [T.I.] [SY 57718516] Arch [G.T.]

<2> Moule, Rev W S, 1946, Abbotsbury The Church Abbey and Other Points of Interest (Monograph). SWX1589.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), p.8, no.4 (Monograph). SDO97.

<4> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 23/03/1955 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<4.1> Hutchings, C D, Oral: C D Hutchings, Clerk of Works, Strangways Estates Ltd, Abbotsbury (Verbal communication). SDO19778.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450384 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Aug 22 2024 2:40PM