Listed Building record MDO17114 - No 2 Court Farm Cottages, Bere Regis

One of two cottages formed from a farmhouse thought to have been built in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century. This cottage is the north wing of the building, which appears to be an early nineteenth-century addition. The walls of this wing are of brick, and it has a tiled roof.

(SY 84909466) Court Farmhouse is an L-shaped building, the oldest part of which is the late 17th or early 18th century, rubble built south end of the west wing. The mid-18th century north end of this wing is of brick. Early in the 19th century a brick built east wing with symmetrical south front was added to the house. Both wings now form two separate houses. <2>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1962 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 849946) Court Farm (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1, 20 (Monograph). SDO148.

‘The following houses unless otherwise described are of two storeys with cob walls and thatched roofs; the barns are of similar building materials. … (33) COURT FARM, house, S.E. of the church, is L-shaped on plan. The oldest part is the S. end of the W. wing, which is of the late 17th or early 18th century; it is of rubble with a tiled roof, the window heads are turned in brick and the S. gable has amoulded coping and parapet. The mid 18th century N. end of the wing is of brick. The brick E. wing with a symmetrical S. front was added in the early 19th century. The wings now form two separate houses. The plan of the E. wing comprises a lobby facing a straight flight of stairs between living room and kitchen; the S. wing was altered to a similar plan in the 19th century.’

<3> Manning, A, 2012, 1 and 2 Court Farm Cottages, Bere Regis, Dorset, Archaeological Watching Brief Report (Unpublished document). SDO14003.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456345 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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