Listed Building record MDO27030 - Court Orchard, Stoke Abbot

Detached Farmhouse. Dated 1751, tablet under eaves centre. Dated HL 1762 in a fielded panel set into porch. Ashlar stone walls with a continuous string over ground floor windows, stepped up over front door. Hipped thatch roof, of steep pitch.

<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. (2) House, 70 yards N.W. of the church, has walls of ashlar and thatched roofs. It was built in traditional style in 1751 and the porch added in 1761; there is a modern addition on the W. The street-front is symmetrically designed; the central porch is gabled, with flat coping and ball-finial and the entrance has a semi-circular head with key-block. It retains the original two-light stone mullioned windows with lightly moulded architraves.'

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1981 (Map). SDO17396.

(ST 45350064). Court Orchard [NAT]

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 883657 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Nov 2 2022 4:21PM