Listed Building record MDO27841 - East Melbury Farmhouse, White Pit Lane, Melbury Abbas

Seventeenth century farmhouse, with eighteenth and nineteenth century alterations. Coursed rubble and ashlar walls with ashlar dressings. Tiled, gable-ended roof with end ashlar stacks. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

East Melbury Farm. Two-storeyed house with attic, walls of coursed rubble and ashlar and tiled roofs. C17th with C19th additions. <2>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey map 1:10,560, 1969 (Map). SDO18658.

(ST 8882 2038) East Melbury Farm [NAT]

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 46 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(4) East Melbury Farm (88822038), house, of two storeys with an attic, has walls of coursed rubble and of ashlar, and tiled roofs. It is of the 17th century, with 19th-century additions. The original plan was of class T. The W. front of the original range is symmetrical and of three bays, with a central doorway in the lower storey flanked by modern stone windows of four square-headed lights and with original three-light windows in the upper storey; these windows have moulded labels with returned stops. The central bay of the W. front has been rebuilt and now has an attic storey with a curvilinear gable. The central doorway has a moulded stone hood on shaped stone brackets, the window above it is of Venetian form and the attic window is round-headed. A 19th-century bay with two-light windows with labels, as before, extends the W. front southwards.'

<3> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 272 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 914001 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 30 2022 3:15PM