Listed Building record MDO27020 - Manor Farmhouse, Stoke Abbot

A detached farmhouse built in 1748. The building has walls of stone ashlar and a thatched roof with stone gable copings. The front garden is enclosed by a wall and gate piers, also of 18th-century date. The wall is of stone rubble with a stone coping and the gate piers of stone ashlar with moulded cornices and chamfered plinth.

Manor Farmhouse. Mid C18th. Formerly Lower Farm. <1>

Authorities 2 and 4 date the building to 1748. <2> <4>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 226 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘The following monuments, unless otherwise described, are of the 17th century and of two storeys; the walls are of rubble and the roofs are thatched or covered with modern materials. Some of the buildings have exposed ceiling-beams and original fireplaces. … (4) LOWER FARM, house (Plate 40) 250 yards N.N.W. of the church, has walls of squared stone. It was built in traditional style in 1748. The plan is L-shape; the doorway in the re-entrant angle has a wood pedimented hood on shaped brackets of c. 1800. There are two and three-light windows with stone mullions and architraves lightly moulded.’

<2> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 400 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1981 (Map). SDO17396.

(ST 45260079). Manor Farm [NAT]

<4> Department of the Environment, 1984, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: District of West Dorset (Parishes of Burstock, Broadwindsor, Mapperton, Netherbury, North Poorton, Pilsdon, Powerstock and Stoke Abbott), 109 (Scheduling record). SDO16351.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 883627 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Nov 14 2022 5:46PM