Listed Building record MDO14219 - Baglake Farmhouse, Litton Cheney

Detached Farmhouse. C17 house, with south block totally refashioned in early C18 under ownership of William Light. Coursed, squared rubble-stone walls, with stone dressings. Plain clay tile roof with gable ends.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 41 (Monograph). SDO97.

'The following monuments, unless otherwise described, are of the 17th century and of two storeys. The walls are of local rubble and the roofs are covered with tiles and slates. Some of the buildings have exposed ceiling-beams. (3) Baglake Farm, house nearly 1 m. W. of the church, has a main S. block and kitchen added in the 18th century. The S. front is symmetrically designed and has a central doorway with moulded architrave, key-stone and flat hood on console-brackets. On the N. side of the house are three original mullion and transom windows with moulded reveals. Inside the building, the front block has several 18th-century fireplaces and two rooms are lined with panelling of the same period.'

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1975 (Map). SDO17396.

(SY 556905) Baglake Farm (NAT)

<3> Bailey, C J, 1982, The Bride Valley : the story of the past, with photographs of the present, 39 (Monograph). SWX1298.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 451289 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 13 2023 1:25PM