Listed Building record MDO28083 - Little Monkwood Hill Farm, Plush, Piddletrenthide

A farmhouse built in the late 18th century. The building has walls of coursed rubble and a tiled roof. A date-stone inscribed 'I.A. 1788' is set in the front wall of the house, and three carved fleurs-de-lys are set in the east gable wall.

'Unless otherwise described, the following monuments are of the 18th century and are of two storeys with walls of rubble and cob, and with thatched roofs. … (38) Little Monkwood Hill Farm (72950449), house, 1½ m. N.E. of (2), of two storeys with walls of coursed rubble and tiled roofs, is of the late 18th century. The S. front is symmetrical and of three bays, with a chamfered plinth and a first-floor string-course. The wooden casement windows have square heads with stone flat arches with large keystones. The central doorway is sheltered by a stone and brick porch with an elliptical arch. Between the ridge of the porch roof and the central first-floor window-sill is a date stone inscribed ‘I.A. 1788’. Reset in the E. gable wall are three carved stone fleurs-de-lis.' {1}

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 219 (Monograph). SDO136.

Record last edited

May 24 2012 11:25AM