Listed Building record MDO41887 - Middle Farmhouse, Fifehead Hill, Fifehead Magdalen

A house built in the 17th century with a wing at the rear that was added in the 18th century. The building has rubble walls and a tiled roof with brick chimney stacks. Surviving features of the interior are reported to include plank and muntin partitions.

ST 77662125. Middle Farmhouse of two storeys with rubble walls was built on an L-shaped plan in the 17th century. The north east wing was added late in the 18th century. Listed by DOE as "Farmhouse 200 yds E.N.E. of Manor Farm". <1>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 21 (Monograph). SDO99.

‘(7) MIDDLE FARM (77662125), house, of two storeys with rubble walls and tile-covered roofs, was built on an L-shaped plan in the 17th century. The S. front (Plate 30) is approximately symmetrical and of three bays, with a central doorway with a chamfered four-centred head, and casement windows of two, three and four square-headed lights with rebated and hollow-chamfered stone surrounds; the windows in the lower storey have labels. The N.E. wing was added late in the 18th century. Inside, the S. range has a central through-passage flanked by moulded plank-and-muntin partitions.’

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 202443 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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