Listed Building record MDO27219 - Higher Lewell Farmhouse, West Knighton

A farmhouse of seventeenth-century date but largely rebuilt in the 1760s. The initials RSP and 176, which is part of a date, are worked in vitrified headers in a wall. The building was extended with outbuildings to east and an extension to house to the west in the mid-nineteenth century.

‘(4) Higher Lewell Farm, house (170 yds E.S.E.), of two storeys, has mainly tiled roofs with stone slates at the verges. The original house was built with stone walls in the 17th century, probably on a two-room plan with end chimneys. Between 1760 and 1769 it was enlarged in brick by the addition of an entrance hall and a third room and heightened. The initials and date RSP 176 are worked in the wall in blue headers; the last figure of the date has been lost with the insertion of a 19th-century bay window.’ [1]

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 137 (Monograph). SDO150.

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Sep 9 2011 10:51AM