Listed Building record MDO2455 - Pickett Farmhouse, South Perrott

(ST 47180548) Picket Farm (NAT). (1)

Picket; an ancient farm once the property of the Mores of Melplash. Part of it seems to have been a chapel. (2)
Picket farmhouse is two storeyed with attics, built of squared rubble and flint with a slated roof. It was constructed in the 15th century on a long rectangular plan with diagonal buttresses
at the west end. The middle part of the building was much altered and rebuilt in the 17th century. In the upper storey of the east end is an original window of two trefoiled lights with tracery, now blocked. The west end has two 17th century stone windows, and the south side has remains of 16th and 17th century openings. Inside the building the original roof remains largely unaltered with eight roof trusses of collar-beam type. (3)

Picket Farmhouse, 15th cent with 17th cent. alterations. Grade II*. (4)

Picket Farm (name confirmed by owner) is a well-preserved stone farmhouse, as described by Authority 3. The reference to a chapel by Authy 2 may have been inspired by the ecclesiastical character of the blocked window at the east end. (5)

Pickett Farnhouse, former Grange. Grade II*. (6-7)

<1> Shipp, W, and Hodson, J W (eds), 1863, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. 3rd edition. Volume 2, 164-5 (Monograph). SWX1269.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1930 (Map). SWX1540.

(ST 47180548) Picket Farm (NAT)

<3> DOE (HRR), 1950, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Beaminster Rural District 1950, 35 (Scheduling record). SDO17358.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 177 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(3) Pickett Farm, house ¾ m. S. of the church, is of two storeys with attics; the walls are of squared rubble and flint and the roofs are slate-covered. It was built in the 15th century on a long rectangular plan with diagonal buttresses at the W. end (for plan, see preface, p. xxxix). The middle part of the building was much altered and rebuilt in the 17th century. In the upper storey of the E. end is an original window of two trefoiled lights with tracery in a two-centred head with a label; it is now blocked. The W. end has two 17th-century stone windows, of four and three lights respectively with labels. The S. side has remains of 16th and 17th-century openings. Inside the building, the original roof (Plate 50) remains largely unaltered; the eight roof trusses are of collar-beam type with curved braces forming arches beneath them; the purlins have curved wind-braces. Elsewhere some of the ceiling-beams are exposed.' (1)

<5> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 21-MAY-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<6> Mr Perry, Mr Perry Picket Farm (Verbal communication). SDO17896.

<7> Historic England, Historic England Archive, OS55/F76/1 (Index). SDO14738.

15THC PICKETT FARM AT SOUTH PERROTT Photographer: UNKNOWN

<8> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 394 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<9> Department of the Environment, 1983, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: District of West Dorset, 101 (Scheduling record). SDO16336.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 192872 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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