Listed Building record MDO16143 - New Barn Farmhouse, Knowlton, Woodlands

A farmhouse built in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. The building has walls of brick and a tiled roof. There is an attached range of outbuildings at the rear and, across the yard, a barn and stable of similar style and date.

New Barn Farm a late 18th century two-storey house of rendered brick walls and a tiled roof. Sashed windows in both storeys have segmental heads with keystones. Contemporary barns and stables to the south of the farm have brick walls and tiled roofs. <2>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1968 (Map). SWX1540.

(SU 02400997) New Barn (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 113 (Monograph). SDO129.

‘(14) NEW BARN FARM (02400997), house, of two storeys with partly rendered brick walls and with a tiled roof, dates from the last quarter of the 18th century. In the symmetrical three-bay S. front the slightly projecting middle bay is emphasised by a modest pediment, the cornice being formed with red and blue bricks. Sashed windows in both storeys have segmental heads with keystones. The square-headed doorway has a wooden architrave and scrolled brackets supporting a flat hood. Inside, the house has a class-T plan.
Contemporary barns and stable buildings on the S. of the farm house have brick walls and tiled roofs. The barn walls have cornices as in the house.’

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213104 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Sep 21 2023 6:04PM