Listed Building record MDO14573 - Lower Farmhouse, Beer Hackett

A farmhouse thought to have been built around 1500, with early 17th-century and 18th-century additions. The building has rubble stone walls and a thatched roof, hipped at left end and with coped gable at right end.

Farmhouse. The original building seems to date from circa 1500 and was open to the roof. At the west end an original truss remains. In the early 17th century floors were inserted; the roof above the middle part was rebuilt and the present gable made above the entrance passage; the fireplace in the central room was put in; the fireplace in the west end was inserted. The east end was probably added about a century afterwards. The walls are of rubble stone and the roof is thatched. The building was set to be demolished in 1966.

<1> Historic England, Historic England Archive, BF029845 LOWER FARM, BEER HACKETT (Index). SDO14738.

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<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 28 (Monograph). SDO97.

'The following monuments, unless otherwise described, are of the 17th century and of two storeys. The walls are of rubble and the roofs are thatched or covered with modern materials. Some of the buildings have exposed ceiling-beams and original fireplaces. … (4) Lower Farm, house 130 yards W.N.W. of the church, was restored and altered in 1735, the date with the initials I. and A.M. appearing on the W. front. The same front retains some original stone-mullioned windows, the lower ones with labels.'

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 509898 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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