Listed Building record MDO27732 - Old Sandpitts, Broadwindsor

Fifteenth century farmhouse with coursed dressed stone walls and a thatched roof with gable-end at right hand, and gable at left hand to front. Stone gable-coping at left hand with ball-finial.

(ST 42480453) Sandpit Farm (NAT). (1)

Sandpit Farm was built late in the 15th or early in the 16th century, and included a single storeyed hall in the south wing. The upper floor was inserted early in the 17th century when the north cross-wing was added. The house retains a number of 17th century stone-mullioned windows with labels. The original roof is of four bays with trusses of heavy collar-beam type. (2)

The house is now known as 'Old Sandpits' (a), and is as described in Authority 2. The west face retains fine mullioned windows and the interior is heavily beamed. (3)

Old Sandpitts. Grade II*. (4)

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1930 (Map). SWX1540.

(ST 42480453) Sandpit Farm (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 55 (Monograph). SDO97.

<3> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 01-MAR-56 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<4> Capt J H Holden RN, Capt J H Holden RN Owner (Verbal communication). SDO17900.

<5> Department of the Environment, 1984, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: District of West Dorset (Parishes of Burstock, Broadwindsor, Mapperton, Netherbury, North Poorton, Pilsdon, Powerstock and Stoke Abbott), 22 (Scheduling record). SDO16351.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 193061 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 25 2022 10:01AM