Listed Building record MDO23564 - Forde Grange, Wheelhouse Lane, Thorncombe

(ST 36570462) Forde Grange (NR) (1)

Forde Grange is a 16th century, two-story house of flint and rubble with slate roofs. There is a 17th century addition to the east end and the whole building has been much altered. The collar-beam roof with curved braces is original. Grade III.

The barn south of the house is an early 16th century building of flint and rubble with slate roofs. The braced collar-beam roof has nine bays and the outer face of the east wall is provided with pigeon holes. Grade II. (2-3)

Forde Grange. Recently converted into two farm cottages. Grange and barn as described. (4)

Forde Grange, the barn with attached outbuilding is Grade II*, the farmhouse is Grade II, as are the C18th stables 20m North of the barn. (5)

<1> DOE (HRR), 1950, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Beaminster Rural District 1950, 38 (Scheduling record). SDO17358.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West) (Monograph). SDO97.

<3> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 04-MAR-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<4> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1968 (Map). SWX1540.

F1 GCS 04-MAR-55

<5> Department of the Environment, 1983, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Dorset (Parishes of Bettiscombe, Marshwood and Thorncombe), 60-1 (Scheduling record). SDO16425.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 191498 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Apr 4 2022 2:09PM