Listed Building record MDO3808 - Lower Farm, formerly Factory Farm, Fifehead Magdalen

Lower Farm comprises of three storeys with ashlar and rubble walls and slate covered roofs. Dating from the early 19th century. This property was advertised in the Salisbury Journal on 6 February 1826 as Acourt's Mill. Later it was Stanford and Dowding's stocking factory.

ST 76582041. Lower Farmhouse of three storeys with ashlar and rubble walls dates from the early 19th century. <2>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1962 (Map). SWX1540.

(ST 76582041) Lower Farm (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 21 (Monograph). SDO99.

‘(11) LOWER FARM (76582041), of three storeys, with ashlar and rubble walls and slate-covered roofs, dates from the early part of the 19th century and probably is the property advertised in the Salisbury Journal on 6 Feb. 1826, as ÁCourt's Mill, a newly erected flour and grist mill with a dwelling house adjoining.
The S.W. and N.E. fronts are uniform, each being symmetrical and of three bays, with a central doorway and large segmental-headed sashed windows; plain plat-bands occur at first-floor level, the corners are defined by rusticated quoins, and the eaves have brick dentil cornices. A two-storey wing on the S.E. has a lean-to roof masked by swept parapets; the details of the wing are similar to those of the main building. Single-storeyed outbuildings extend the range to S.W. and S.E.’

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 202444 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Feb 14 2022 11:35AM