Listed Building record MDO23513 - Nutford Farmhouse, Pimperne

A farmhouse built around the middle of the eighteenth century. The building has walls of brick in English bond and tiled roofs with stone slate margins. An attached cottage has walls of brickwork in Flemish bond. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

NUTFORD FARM (87940799), house, 1 3/4 m. S.W. of the village, is of two storeys with attics and has brick walls and tile-covered roofs. The buildings is of the 18th century.

Reset in a brick wall separating the garden from the farmyard is a late Mediaeval doorway with a moulded four-centred stone head and continuous jambs. The 18th-century gateway into the garden from the road on the S.W. of the house has square brick piers with moulded ashlar caps and ball finials. Between the road and the farmhouse is a detached Cottage, perhaps a little later in date than the farmhouse, but with gabled end walls as described above. <2-3>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey map 1:10,560, 1969 (Map). SDO18658.

(ST 87940799) Nutford Farm

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 53 (Monograph). SDO99.

‘(5) NUTFORD FARM (87940799), house, 1¾ m. S.W. of the village, is of two storeys with attics and has brick walls and tile-covered roofs. The building is of the 18th century. In plan the house is L-shaped, with the main range facing E.S.E. and having a wing projecting eastwards from it at the N. end. The E. front of the range is symmetrical and of three bays, with a central doorway and with square-headed casement windows of three lights in both storeys; a plat-band occurs at first-floor level. The E. wing is of one bay. The S. end of the main range and the E. end of the wing are gabled and have rounded brick copings above corbelled brick kneelers; each apex has a brick chimney-stack.
Reset in a brick wall separating the garden from the farmyard is a late mediaeval doorway with a moulded four-centred stone head and continuous jambs. The 18th-century gateway into the garden from the road on the S.W. of the house has square brick piers with moulded ashlar caps and ball finials. Between the road and the farmhouse is a detached Cottage, perhaps a little later in date than the farmhouse, but with gabled end walls as described above.’

<3> DOE (HHR), 1954, List of Buildings of Special Historic or Architectural Interest: Blandford Rural District, 13 (Scheduling record). SDO17701.

<4> Nicholls, Roy, 2009, Archeological Assessment for Shottsford Cottage, Nutford, Blandford Forum (Unpublished document). SDO15279.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205463 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 3 2022 10:42AM