Listed Building record MDO27600 - Church Farmhouse, Crown Road, Marnhull

A farmhouse built in the first half of the eighteenth century, and with an extension on the south added in 1861. The walls of tehe building are faced with ashlar, and it has a gable-ended slate roof with brick chimney stack.

Church Farm is early C18th with a southern extension of 1861. <1>

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 154 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(6) CHURCH FARM (78231869), house, 100 yds. S.E. of the church, is a two-storied ashlar-faced farmhouse of the first half of the 18th century. The symmetrical three-bay N. front has a central doorway with a moulded architrave and a curved broken pediment on scroll consoles; at the centre of the pediment is a gadrooned urn. Widely spaced on either side are sashed windows with moulded architraves, and three similar openings correspond on the first floor. At the E. end of the N. front, on the first floor, is a small bull's-eye loop with a moulded architrave and four keystones. An extension on the S. side of the house is dated 1861. Internally the house has a Group (i) plan, as noted at Blandford Forum (p. 18).’

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1983 (Map). SDO17396.

(ST78231869) Church Farm [NAT]

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 888429 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 23 2024 11:55AM