Listed Building record MDO27718 - Wantsley Farmhouse, Broadwindsor

(ST 45350208) Wantsley Farm (NAT) (1)

Part of the possessions of the Morgans of South Mapperton, from whom it came to the Trenchards. In the year 1642 Thomas Trenchard conveyed it - with the messuage newly erected - to Wm Gollop. (2)

Wantsley Farm is a two-storeyed mid-17th century house of stone with a slated roof. It retains a number of original stone-mullioned windows with labels, and the outer and inner doorways of the
porch have moulded jambs and four-centred arches in square heads.

The barn NW of the house is probably of the same period. (3-4)

Wantsley Farm is a well-preserved farmhouse, as described by Authorities 2 and 3. Only one period of building could be traced, and there are no signs of modernisation apart from the slate roof.

The barn is of stone and has a mullioned window. (5)

<1> Shipp, W, and Hodson, J W (eds), 1863, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. 3rd edition. Volume 2, 328 (Monograph). SWX1269.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1904 (Map). SWX1540.

(ST 45350208) Wantsley Farm (NAT)

<3> DOE (HRR), 1950, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Beaminster Rural District 1950, 11 (Scheduling record). SDO17358.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 55 (Monograph). SDO97.

<5> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 12-MAY-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 193007 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 25 2022 4:00PM