Listed Building record MDO17068 - Renscombe Farmhouse, Worth Matravers

A farmhouse built in the early seventeenth century, and consisting of a long, straight range with two small wings, possibly later, one containing a staircase. The building has walls or Purbeck stone rubble and a stone slate roof which may have originally been a cruck construction.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2, 413 (Monograph). SDO149.

‘The following monuments unless otherwise described are of two storeys, or in a few instances of one storey with attics, and have walls of local Purbeck stone rubble and stone-slated roofs; they are of the late 18th or early 19th century. … (17) Renscombe Farm (964776) is of the 17th century. On plan the house consists of a long straight range, now divided into five rooms, with a wing of shallow projection to the W. and close to it a second small wing containing a staircase. The original doorways have four-centred heads and the windows have hollow-chamfered stone frames and mullions. Reset in the staircase wing is part of a stone window frame with one plain pointed light of uncertain date. Barn, E. of house, with two porches to the W. may also be of the 17th century.’

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Apr 3 2014 11:27AM