Listed Building record MDO4268 - Church Farm, Margaret Marsh

(ST 82371867) Church Farm (NAT) (1)

Church Farm (82371867), house, with walls of squared rubble and with tiled roofs, is of the 16th century and was originially single storeyed with an attic, but it was heightened to two storeys probably
in the 18th century. (2)

Church Farmhouse. Grade II. (3)

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey map 1:10,560, 1962 (Map). SDO18658.

(ST 82371867) Church Farm (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 46 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(2) CHURCH FARM (82371867), house, with walls of squared rubble and with tiled roofs, is of the 16th century and was originally single-storeyed with an attic, but it was heightened of two storeys, probably in the 18th century. The S. range has two rooms with hollow-chamfered intersecting ceiling beams; originally they were seperated by a through-passage, but the W. partition has been removed. The W. room appears always to have been unheated; the E. room has a blocked open fire-place. The N. range has hollow-chamfered beams with shouldered stops, and the N. room, no doubt the kitchen, has a blocked open fireplace. An oven formerly projected from the N. wall, but the projection has been removed and the cavity has been filled in. It is probable that a staircase formerly occupied one of the spaces beside the N. fireplace, but nothing is see of it today. The W. wall of the N. range appears to have been rebuilt.

<3> DOE (HRR), 1984, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: District of North Dorset, 25 (Scheduling record). SDO17668.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 206018 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Apr 27 2022 12:40PM