Building record MDO28032 - Chestnut Farmhouse, Pimperne

18th century house, of two storeys with attics; ashlar and brickwork walls and tile roofs. Extensively modernised. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

ST 90400939. Chestnut Farm, a late 18th century building recently modernised, is of two storeys with attics, having walls of ashlar and brick work, and a tiled roof (HHRGrade 3). A barn and range of farm buildings are of the same date. <1-2>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 53 (Monograph). SDO99.

‘(7) CHESTNUT FARM (90400939), house, of two storeys with attics, with walls of ashlar and brickwork and with tile-covered roofs, is of late 18th-century origin, but recently has been extensively modernised. Near by, on the N. of the adjacent farmyard, is a late 18th-century Barn with walls partly of reused Greensand ashlar and partly of brickwork; the N. and S. walls are strengthened by two-stage brick buttresses with weathered offsets; the N. side has a transeptal exit bay. The barn roof has collared trusses supporting two purlins on each side; curved braces resting on ledges in the brick walls meet each principal at the level of the lower purlins. A range of Farm Buildings on the S. of the farmyard, constructed of materials similar to those of the barn, has a date-stone of 1790.’

<2> DOE (HHR), 1954, List of Buildings of Special Historic or Architectural Interest: Blandford Rural District, 28 (Scheduling record). SDO17701.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209415 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 23 2024 12:43PM