Building record MDO30683 - West Building, Witchampton

A farmhouse built in the seventeenth century, later reduced in size and converted into a pair of cottages. The building has brick walls ornamented with knapped flint in a diaper pattern, and a tiled roof.

WEST BUILDING (96620558), of two storeys with brick walls ornamented with a diaper of knapped flint, and with a tiled roof, originated in the 17th century as a farm house; reduced in size, it has since been made into a pair of cottages. A late 18th-century view of the farm house appears under the name 'Upper Hemsworth' on Isaac Taylor's estate map; it then had a two-storeyed N. wing and a buttressed W. Porch with a round-headed opening. <1>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 108 (Monograph). SDO129.

‘(19) West Building (96620558), of two storeys with brick walls ornamented with a diaper of knapped flint, and with a tiled roof, originated in the 17th century as a farm house; reduced in size, it has since been made into a pair of cottages. A late 18th-century view of the farm house appears under the name 'Upper Hemsworth' on Isaac Taylor's estate map (see (18)); it then had a two-storeyed N. wing and a buttressed W. porch with a round-headed opening.’

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1977 (Map). SDO17396.

(ST 96620558) West Building (NAT)

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209310 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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