Listed Building record MDO37205 - Camesworth Farmhouse, Netherbury

A farmhouse built around the middle of the seventeenth century. The builing has walls of stone rubble and a thatched roof with brick chimney stack. In 1952 the house was reported as having an eight-bay cider house attached to the south side. Surviving original features of the interior are reported to include a collar-beam roof and ceiling beams.

The house is of 17thc. date, and "retains some original 3-light windows. Adjoining on the S. is a cider house of eight bays". <2>

Known as CAMESWORTH FARM. I know nothing of its history <3.1>. A well preserved stone built farmhouse which is partly stucco faced. The roof is thatched and windows are modern except for mullioned windows with dripstones in the West and South walls. Only one period of building could be detected. The cider house referred to in T2 has a corrugated iron roof otherwise the description is correct. It is stone built. <3>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

[SY 47749725] CAMESWORTH FARM [T.I.]

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 174 (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 are covered with thatch or modern materials. Many of the buildings have exposed ceiling-beams and original fireplaces. … (18) Camesworth Farm, house on the W. side of the road nearly 1½ m. S.S.E. of the church, retains some original three-light windows of stone. Adjoining on the S. is a cider-house of eight bays.’

<3> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F3 JR 10-MAY-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<3.1> Parsons, Mrs, Oral: Mrs Parsons (tenant), Camesworth Farmhouse, Netherbury (Verbal communication). SDO19027.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 449885 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Dec 14 2022 2:37PM