Listed Building record MDO27541 - Sweet's Farmhouse, Stour Row, Stour Provost

Seventeenth century farmhouse in coursed, squared rubble with thatched roof, hipped right and gabled left. Brick stacks to end of ridge and to right of front door.

(ST 8122 2068) Sweet's House [NAT]. (1)

Sweet's Farm. C17th. Formerly one-storeyed with dormer-windowed attics, but now of 2 storeys. Grade II. (2-3)

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey map 1:10,560, 1968 (Map). SDO18658.

(ST 8122 2068) Sweet's House [NAT]

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 83 (Monograph). SDO99.

‘The following farmhouses and isolated cottages, dating from the 17th century, are dispersed around Woodville in the central part of the parish, from ½ m. to 1¼ m. E. of the parish church. Unless described otherwise they are two-storeyed and have rubble walls and thatched roofs. … (22) Sweet's Farm (81222068), house, formerly of one storey with dormer-windowed attics, but now of two storeys, retains several casement windows of three square-headed lights with hollow-chamfered stone surrounds and moulded labels. Inside, one room has deep-chamfered beams intersecting to form a four-panel ceiling, and an open fireplace; another room has a stop-chamfered beam.’

<3> DOE (HRR), 1984, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: District of North Dorset, 53 (Scheduling record). SDO17668.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 913323 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Apr 27 2022 2:25PM