Listed Building record MDO14720 - Upbury Farmhouse, Church Street, Yetminster

[ST 59391061] UPBURY FARM [T.I.] (1)

UPBURY FARM: The house is of two storeys, with rubble walls and stone slated roofs.
It was built in the 15thc with a central one storey hall, an upper storey added in the 16thc, and the house further altered in the 17thc. There are external features of all these periods, and some
16thc. work internally, with a collar-beam roof. (2)
The house and out-buildings are still called UPBURY FARM. I have never been able to ascertain the origin of the house whether it was built as a Manor House, or as an ecclesiastical building. (3)

The old part of the house consists of a N.-S. block. The E. face has blocked 15thc hall windows and a stone doorway with a pointed arch.

The windows in present use are of modern construction, but the house is in a good state of repair. (4)

Upbury Farm House, Grade II*. (5)

Mentioned. (6)

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1930 (Map). SWX1540.

[ST 59391061] UPBURY FARM [T.I.]

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

‘(3) UPBURY FARM, house S.W. of the church, is of two storeys; the walls are of rubble and the roofs are covered with stone slates. The house was built in the 15th century with a central one-storeyed hall. Late in the 16th century an upper floor was inserted in the hall and the house was further altered in the 17th century. On the E. front the original doorway has moulded jambs, two-centred arch and label; above it is a quatre-foiled panel enclosing a conventional flower; S. of the doorway is an original window to the former hall, now blocked; it is of two trefoiled and transomed lights in a square head; further S. is the head of a similar but smaller window. On the W. side of the house there is a straight-joint to the N. of which the wall had been rebuilt. Inside the building, the former hall has an inserted floor with 16th-century moulded ceiling-beams. The roof is of collar-beam type with curved braces.’

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 21-SEP-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<4> Mrs T.M. Willis, 1955, Oral: Mrs T.M. Willis 20.9.55 (Occupier) Upbury Farm, Yetminster (Verbal communication). SDO17812.

<5> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 505 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 196202 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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