Listed Building record MDO39254 - Manor Farmhouse, Church Road, Preston, Weymouth

A farmhouse built in the mid- to late-18th century, this building is the surviving but later wing of a 17th-century farmhouse which was demolished. The building has walls of coursed rubble and a thatched roof with brick chimney stacks, and incorporates the remains of former farm outbuildings.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2, 362 (Monograph). SDO149.

‘(306) MANOR FARM, house and cottage, 70 yds. N. of the church, of two storeys and one storey and attics, were built in the 17th century as one house of T-plan with the central wing on the S. The N. part, the cottage, retains an original three-light window with recessed hollow-chamfered mullions under a moulded label. The W. gable has corbelled stone kneelers and a stone coping; behind this wall are the remains of an original wooden staircase at the side of the fireplace. The S. wing, which has near the doorway a stone inscribed R.N., was heightened to two full storeys in the early 19th century and extended to the S. to give a plan typical of this date with a central staircase hall and rooms at each side.’

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Mar 23 2017 3:18PM