Listed Building record MDO14782 - Manor Farmhouse, High Street, Yetminster

A farmhouse thought to have been built around the middle of the seventeenth century, and enlarged in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century. The building has walls of rubble stone, partly covered in pebble dash, with ashlar quoins and a slate roof. it has a T-shaped plan and incorporates a dairy.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West) (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. … (21) Manor Farm, house 175 yards N.E. of the church, has a later E. wing and retains many of its original stone-mullioned windows with labels. Inside the building is an original muntin and plank partition.’

Record last edited

Jul 16 2015 2:38PM