Listed Building record MDO37198 - Nash Farmhouse, Nash Lane, Marshwood

A farmhouse built around 1400 with sixteenth-century, seventeenth-century and later alterations and additions. The building has walls of stone rubble, covered in render, and slate roofs with stone detail and stone and brick chimney stacks. The original house was set out on a cross-passage plan. Surviving internal features are reported to include fireplaces and plank-and-muntin partitions.

Nash Farm is a 16th century flint and rubble 2 storey building with a 17th century addition on the south east a and an 18th century wing on the north. It retains some stone-mullioned windows on the south front. <2-3>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 157 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘The following monuments, unless otherwise described, are of the 17th century and of two storeys; the walls are of rubble and the roofs, where old, are thatched. Several of the buildings have exposed ceiling-beams and original fireplaces. … (14) Nash Farm, house 1,050 yards S.W. of the church, was built in the 16th century but has a 17th-century addition on the S.E. and an 18th-century wing on the N. The house retains some stone-mullioned windows. Inside the building there is a plank partition (Plate 51) and the W. part of the house has panelled open ceilings with original moulded beams and plates.’

<2> DOE (HRR), 1950, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Beaminster Rural District 1950, 22 (Scheduling record). SDO17358.

<3> DOE (HHR), 3 April 1985, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: District of West Dorset amendment 1985 (Scheduling record). SDO17359.

SY 39 NE 5/39 MARSHWOOD NASH LANE Nash Farmhouse
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Farmhouse C.1400 roof and core, with C16 and C17 and later alterations. Rubble walls, rendered. Stone mullions. "Turnerized" slate roofs with stone copings to gable-ends. One front wall stack, with modern brick capping. 2 brick stacks, renewed, at each gable. Gross-Passage plan, with gabled-in original extension at lower end, possibly store-house. Originally open hall, left of Screens, in C15. 2 storeys.C.4 windows: stone mullions, hollow-chamfered of 3 and 4 lights. Iron casements C17 and square leaded lights. Plank front door immediately right of front stack, with strap hinges. Rendered porch. West gable wall: protruding rubble stack with set-offs.
Left and low down: small 4-centred wooden window with hollow chamfered surround. Interior: arch-braced collar-beam roof, supported on wooden corbels, c.1400. Front stack fireplace, c.1400. Hall and Parlour with C16 moulded ceiling beams, forming ceiled compartments. C16 Plank-and-Muntin partitions to screns and Parlour. 2 depressed-arch service door-heads (integral) blocked in C17. Open fireplace in kitchen with wooden lintel, part-blocked. Stone fireplace in solar upstairs, c.1400.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 449724 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Oct 27 2021 4:21PM