Listed Building record MDO28013 - Rawston Farm, Tarrant Rawston

Late sixteenth or early seventeenth century house, of two storeys with attics. The walls are partly of rubble and flint with ashlar dressings, and partly of brick. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

ST 93860666. Rawston Farmhouse is a two storeyed building with attics, with a centre range dating from the late 16th or early 17th century. The east and west ranges are 18th and 19th century respectively. Adjacent to the house on the south is a large barn, probably 18th or 19th century. <1>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 111 (Monograph). SDO99.

' (2) Rawston Farm (93860666), house, some 20 yds. S.W. of (1), is two-storeyed with attics, and has walls partly of rubble and flint with ashlar dressings, and partly of brick. In the H-shaped plan the centre range, extending E.-W., is of late 16th or early 17th-century date ; the E. range is of the 18th cenutry, and the W. range is of the 19th century.

The 18th-century brick E. front is symmetrical and of five bays, with uniform segmental-headed sashed windos, and a central doorway with a rusticated ashlar surround and a pedimented hood. The ends of the façade are marked by french quoins; the centre bay is defined by plain pilasters. The pilasters formerly supported a pediment-like gable and the central window in the upper storey had a round head (photograph in N.M.R.), but these features have recently been eliminated. The S. elevation of the original range is of squared rubble and flint; in it each storey has a stone casement window of four square-headed lights under a moulded label. The N. elevation retains the lower part of a large chimneybreast with a chamfered ashlar plinth. The 19th-century W. range has brick walls and plain casement windows.

Inside, the ground-floor room in the original range has 17th-century panelling, perhaps reset. The fireplace surround is modern. The E. range has a class-T plan; the stairs in the central compartment have close strings and turned balusters.

Adjacent to the house on the S. is a large Barn, with walls of coursed rubble and brickwork, and with a thatched roof; it is probably of the late 18th or early 19th century.'

<2> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 419 (Monograph). SWX1290.

Additional bibliography.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1976 (Map). SDO17396.

(ST 93860666) Rawston Farm (NAT)

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209455 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 11 2023 6:45AM