Listed Building record MDO14520 - The Dairy House, Trent

A farmhouse of probable sixteenth-century date, now private residence. The south wall appears to have been rebuilt in the seventeenth century, and there is a later extension on the east side of the house. The building has rubble walls and a tiled roof.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 258 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(7) DAIRY FARM, house 60 yards S.E. of the church, is of two storeys; the walls are of rubble and the roofs are tiled. It was built probably early in the 16th century but the S. wall seems to have been rebuilt in the 17th century and there is a later extension on the E. The S. front has an original two-stage buttress at the former E. end of the building; the rest of the front has 17th-century three-light window with labels and doorway of the same date with moulded jambs and segmental arch in a square head with alabel. The W. end has an original window of four lights with moulded reveals and label with returned stops; on the first floor is another original window of two cinquefoiled returned stops. There is a small staircase wing on the N. side. Inside the building are two late 16th-century fireplaces, one with a square head and one with a four-centred head; there is also a 16th-century doorway with moulded jambs and segmental head.'

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Aug 22 2024 3:36PM