Listed Building record MDO15076 - Abbey Grange, Hospital Lane, Sherborne

House, 210 yards north of the abbey church, incorporates part of the great barn of the abbey. Built in the 14th or 15th century and the surviving part includes part of the body of the barn and the north and south porches.

The central part of the 15th century abbey barn , converted to a dwelling in 1827. Listed. (2)

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 214 (Monograph). SDO97.

'a(10) ABBEY GRANGE, house 210 yards N. of the church, incorporates part of the great barn of the abbey. It was built in the 14th or 15th century and the surviving part includes part of the body of the barn and the N. and S. porches; it has been divided up into two storeys with attics, probably early in the 19th century, as the complete barn is shown standing in a map of 1802. The S. porch has two-stage side-buttresses and a large entrence with chamfered jambs, segmental-pointed head and label; in the E. wall is a doorway with chamfered jambs and segmental-pointed head. Adjoining the porch on the W. is a gabled staircase projection. The body of the barn has been curtailed at each end and now consists of about one and a half bays with modern E. and W. walls. The N. porch has a modern addition against its N. side, but it has an entrance similar to that in the S. porch but with no label. All the windows are modern. Inside the building, the S. porch has rough collar-beam roof-trusses and the oak post of one of the main roof-trusses is exposed'.

<2> DOE (HHR), 1973, List of Buildings of Special Historic and Architectural Interest: West Dorset Urban District of Sherborne, District of West Dorset, 4th October 1973 (Scheduling record). SDO17491.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1356987 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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