Listed Building record MDO41884 - Manor Farmhouse, Fifehead Magdalen

A house thought to have been built in the 16th century. The building has walls of coursed rubble and a tiled roof with chimney stacks covered in render. A notable feature of the outside is a stone doorway.

Two storey building with rubble walls and tiled roofs. Probably late 16th century. <2>

Manor Farm, name confirmed, a farmhouse in excellent condition. With one exception, all the original two-to-four light stone mullioned windows have been preserved. The door is of probably 18th century date, and the chimneys are cemented brick, but the house is outstanding for the area. <3>

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1900, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch two (Map). SDO11594.

(ST 77472115) Manor Farm (NAT)

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

‘(8) MANOR FARM (77472114), house, of two storeys with rubble walls and tiled roofs, is probably of late 16th-century origin. The N. front is of four bays, with stone windows of two, three and four square-headed lights, with moulded labels in the lower storey. The doorway is square-headed, with stout timber posts and lintel. A small round-headed mezzanine window near the E. end of the N. front, now blocked, indicates the position of an original staircase. In the western part of the S. elevation is a stone doorway with a moulded four-centred head, continuous jambs with run-out stops, a moulded square surround, and small blank shields in the spandrels. Elsewhere, the S. elevation has three-light and four-light windows uniform with those of the N. front. Internally the original plan has been obliterated, but the entrance vestibule retains the ends of truncated, heavily moulded beams and wall-plates.’

<3> Phillips, A S, Various, Field Investigators Comments ASP, F1 ASP 28-JUL-77 (Unpublished document). SWX3817.

‘Manor Farm, name confirmed, a farmhouse in excellent condition. With one exception, all the original two-to-four light stone mullioned windows have been preserved. The door is of probably 18th century date, and the chimneys are cemented brick, but the house is outstanding for the area.’

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 202418 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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