Listed Building record MDO17728 - Dairy House, Turners Puddle

A house thought to have been built in the seventeenth century, with later extensions. The building has walls of brick, partly covered with render, and a thatch roof with brick chimney stacks.

Dairy House, Turners Puddle of two-storeys with brick walls and thatched roof, probably ? 17th century. <1>

SY 835932. Dairy House with brick walls, is 18th century and has been extended to the west. <3>

A thatched cottage, requiring the removal of thatch on the south face side in order to enable to roof structure to be repaired. The roof underwent a campaign of improvements, with construction completed in 3 different stages. The recording of the composition of the thatch was a requirement of the listed building consent and was split up into two sections. Between the main chimney and the east end of the ridge and west of the main chimney.

Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1962 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 83579324) Dairy House (NAT)

Brachi, P, 2015, The Dairy House, Turnerspuddle. Report on the Composition of the Thatched Roof revealed in the processof re-thatching: August 2014 (Unpublished document). SDO21685.

<1> DOE (HRR), 1952, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Wareham and Purbeck Rural District 1952, 37 (Scheduling record). SWX2549.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2, 298 (Monograph). SDO149.

<4> Historic England, National Record of the Historic Environment, 456349 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 8 2026 3:17PM