Listed Building record MDO3896 - Higher Langham House, Langham, Gillingham

House built in 1770, with nineteenth century extensions to east and west. Built of coursed rubble with a hipped tiled roof and brick chimney stacks.

Higher Langham House of two storeys with rubble walls and ashlar dressings has a central portion dating from 1770; a date-stone inscribed 'WB 1770',being on each of the large brick chimneystacks. A 19th century wing extends to the east and a corresponding wing on the west is of more recent date. <2>

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

(ST 77212586) Higher Langham Farm (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 33 (Monograph). SDO99.

‘(59) HIGHER LANGHAM HOUSE (77212586), near the W. boundary of the parish, is of two storeys and has walls of rubble with ashlar dressings and is roofed with tiles (Plate 45). The central part of the house was built in 1770; a 19th-century wing extends to the E., and a corresponding wing on the W. is of more recent date.
The S. front of the 18th-century range is symmetrical and of three bays. At the centre of the lower storey is a doorway with a rusticated ashlar architrave and a pediment; on each side are sashed windows with moulded architraves with keystones; on the first floor are three similar windows. At each end of the S. façade the eaves are supported on brackets in the form of triglyphs. The roof culminates in two large brick chimneystacks, on each of which is a date-stone inscribed 'WB 1770'. The N front has been extensively altered and the E. and W. ends of the original range are masked by the later wings.
Inside, the principal 18th-century rooms have moulded and enriched cornices. The fireplace in the hall has a stone surround with an enriched architrave, fret and leaf ornament on the frieze and an enriched cornice. The stairs have close strings, latticed balustrades and panelled oak dadoes.
A Barn some 20 yds. W. of the house has rubble walls and a tiled roof and is probably of the 18th century. The roof has king-post trusses with struts of ogee form.’

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 202331 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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