Listed Building record MDO27215 - West Knighton Farmhouse, West Knighton

A farmhouse probably built in the seventeenth century, but with later alterations. The building has brick walls and the roof is slate. The southern part of the house formerly housed a dairy and cheese loft.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1, 137 (Monograph). SDO148.

‘(3) West Knighton Farm, house (40 yds. N.W.), is of two storeys with brick walls and slated roof (Plate 44). Hutchins (II, 498) records that ‘the Richards’s had a seat here built by James Richards Esq.’ in the late 17th century, and the existing house is probably of that date although much altered. The hung-sash windows, the slated roof and most of the internal partitions and fittings are of the 19th century, so too is an added wing to the E. The walls are built in English bond with a first-floor plat-band; doorways and windows have segmental arched heads. On plan, the house comprises an entrance hall and staircase flanked by two heated rooms with a kitchen beyond one of them, giving a longs traight range divided into four compartments.’

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Nov 30 2015 4:03PM