Listed Building record MDO28443 - Manor Farm, Stourton Caundle

A farmhouse built in the 18th century, with some later alterations. The building has walls of rubble and stone-slated roof. In 1970 the building was described as retaining several original internal features. At its western end it adjoins a barn thought to have been built in the 16th or early 17th century.

Manor Farm. The house is probably early 18th century. Adjacent on the west is a barn of the late 16th or early 17th centuries with jointed cruck roof-trusses and arch-braced collar-beams. A barn to the South is probably 18th century; its roof rests on two jointed cruck trusses and on floor tie-trusses. <2>

Manor Farmhouse and Barn adjoining to the West, both Grade II. <3>

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1981 (Map). SWX1197.

ST71451495. Manor Farm

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 267-268 (Monograph). SDO136.

'(4) Manor Farm (71451495), house, 300 yds. S. of the parish church, has rubble walls and stone-slated roofs and was built early in the 18th century; the sashed windows were probably inserted in the 19th century. Inside, the kitchen ceiling has a stop-chamfered beam; the stairs have turned balusters, moulded handrails and a panelled dog-gate, probably of the 18th century. Adjacent, on the W. and partly incorporated in the farmhouse, is a Barn that dates probably from the end of the 16th or the beginning of the 17th century; it has rubble walls and stone-slated roofs, transeptal exit bays to N. and S., and jointed-cruck roof trusses with arch-braced collar-beams. A Barn some 30 yds. S. of the farmhouse has rubble walls and stone-slated roofs and is probably of the 18th century; the roof rests on two jointed-cruck trusses and on four tie-beam trusses.'

<3> DOE (HRR), 1984, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: District of North Dorset, 77 (Scheduling record). SDO17668.

Dec-1983

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 888568 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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