Listed Building record MDO17122 - Roke Farmhouse and attached outbuilding, Bere Regis

Detached 2 storey farmhouse built in the eighteenth century and enlarged in the nineteenth century. Brick walls and a twentieth century tiled roof, replacing thatch; brick stacks. Irregular plan.

5/25 III Roke Farmhouse
House brick and thatched. 2s. and attic. Central brick stack. Segmental-headed windows. Mid C.18.
5/25A II Barn at Roke Farm Immediately South of farmhouse Brick and thatched. East and West ends on North entrance bay have hipped gables. Collar beam roof with side purlins. ? Early C.18. <1>

(SY 834960) Roke farmhouse, a late 18th century two-storeyed building of brick with a thatched roof, on an L-shaped plan. It was considerably altered in the 19th century.Grade 3. 30 yards to the south of the farmhouse is a brick-built barn with buttresses and thatched roof, probably built in the mid-18th century. <3>

<1> DOE (HRR), 1952, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Wareham and Purbeck Rural District 1952, 6 (Scheduling record). SWX2549.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 83479595) Roke Farm (NAT)

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1, 21 (Monograph). SDO148.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456075 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Jun 3 2024 10:35AM