Listed Building record MDO23045 - Knoll Farm, Corfe Mullen

Seventeenth century lobby entrance house, with early nineteenth century alterations. Painted brick walls in the oldest of English bond, some of English Garden Wall bond, cambered arches to the ground floor openings and a tiled roof.

Knoll Farmhouse superficially of around 1700 was extended and greatly altered in the 19th century. However, the plan, originally of two rooms with chimneystack dividing them, suggests a rather earlier building. <2>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1, 104 (Monograph). SDO148.

'The following monuments, unless otherwise described, are of two storeys with brick walls and tilecovered roofs . ... (18) KNOLL FARM (979974) is a house superficially of c. 1700 extended and greatly altered in the 19th century, but the plan, originally of two rooms with a chimney-stack dividing them, suggests a rather earlier building and thus only refacing and refenestration, etc., in c. 1700. Inside, the exposed ceiling beams, roughly adzed, have slight chamfers with shaped stops. '

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1970 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 979975) Knoll Farm (NAT)

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457201 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 5 2022 5:14PM