Listed Building record MDO15240 - Monks Barn, 40 Newland, Sherborne

Monk's Barn. C17th or earlier. Stone house with 2-storeyed 5 window stone rubble front. Later lower additions to West. <1>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 218 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(65) Monks' Barn, house 25 yards W. of Hound Street, has been much altered. The front door has an early 18th-century hood on shaped brackets. Inside the building, the early 18th-century staircase (Plate 52) has turned balusters, close strings and square newels; at the top of the staircase are some 17th-century flat-shaped balusters. The dining-room is lined with early 18th-century panelling with a dado-rail; the 17th-century fireplace is set within a bolection-moulded surround. On the upper floor are one 17th-century and two early 18th-century fireplaces.’

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 887489 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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