Listed Building record MDO14224 - Gorwell Farmhouse, Gorwell, Long Bredy

Mid nineteenth century farmhouse, with re-used seventeenth century material. Rubble-stone walls with dressed stone quoins and a nineteenth century slate roof with boxed eaves and gable-ends.

Gorwell Farm is a 17th century two storey rubble built house which has been largely rebuilt except for one wing with original stone mullioned windows and fireplaces. The barn, S of the house, was built probably early in the 18th century and is of six bays. <2>

Gorwell Farm is the name of the building (a). The house was unoccupied at the time of field investigation. The N wing contains 17th century work. The N face of the wing has two 2-light stone mullioned windows on the upper storey and one of 3-lights on the lower storey. At the E end of this wing there is a blocked 2-light window in the upper storey. The rest of the building appears to be comparatively modern, with the exception of the entrance porch on the E front. The archway of this appears to be a modern replacement in 17th century style, but
the lower parts of the jambs are perhaps original. <3>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 57468717) Gorwell Farm (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 41 (Monograph). SDO97.

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 12-APR-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3.1> King, Mr, Oral: Mr King, Puncknowle Manor House, Puncknowle (Verbal communication). SDO19721.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450297 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Apr 11 2023 1:58PM