Listed Building record MDO27729 - Manor Farmhouse, Littlewindsor, Broadwindsor

Farmhouse of about 1700, with dressed stone walls with an asbestos slate roof and stone gable-copings. Stone stacks at left and right hand gables.

(ST 43990435) Manor Farm (NAT). (1)

Little Windsor was a manor, at one time owned by Ford Abbey. It has been in secular hands since 36 Henry VIII. (2)

Manor Farm is a two-storeyed 17th century rubble-built house, much altered but retaining some original stone-mullioned windows. (3)

Manor Farm (name confirmed by owner) is a well-preserved farmhouse with a modern roof and windows, except for two mullioned ones without dripstones in the north face of the house.

The property carries no manorial rights (a), and no information was obtained regarding it having been originally a manor house. (4)

<1> Shipp, W, and Hodson, J W (eds), 1863, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. 3rd edition. Volume 2, 328-9 (Monograph). SWX1269.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1930 (Map). SWX1540.

(ST 43990435) Manor Farm (NAT)

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 55 (Monograph). SDO97.

<4> Mr. Boucher, Mr. Boucher owner (Verbal communication). SDO17901.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 193073 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 25 2022 10:14AM