Listed Building record MDO4285 - Thornton Farm, Marnhull

A seventeenth century farmhouse with rebuilding of the eighteenth and a cross wing of the nineteenth century. The building has walls of squared, coursed rubble and ashlar with a hipped and gabled slate roofs with brick stacks.

National Record of the Historic Environment, 206008 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 159-60 (Monograph). SDO136.

(61) THORNTON FARM 80481804), house, 1.5 m. E.S.E. of the parish church, is partly of two and partly of three storeys and has walls of coursed rubble and ashlar, and modern slated roofs. Although the house is mainly of the 18th and early 19th centuries it inclueds elements of a late medieval building.
The N. front has, to the W., the slightly projecting block of the 19th-century W. wing, ashlar-faced and with a chamfered plinthand moulded cornice; the casement windows have wooden frames and the doorway is sheltered by a flat wooden hood on shaped brackets. The E. part of the N. front is of the 18th century and is three-storied in consequence of the falling ground. The ground-floor windows are wood-framed; on the first and second floors are 18th-century stone windows, each of three square-headed lights with rebted and chamfered heads and jambs. On the S. side of the house the W. wing has a single sashed window on each floor and at the E. end of the S. front is a 19th-century single-storied lean-to. In a recess between these 19th-century features the S. wall of the original range is exposed. It is of squared coursed rubble with a chamfered plinth, and in the E. part of the wall is a late medieval sotne window of three rebated and hollow-chamfered square-headed lights undre a hollow-chamfered, weathered label with returned stops. Next to the window is a square-headed doorway with a timber lintel. On the first floor is a three-light window ligk that below, but with no label. Inside the house no notable features are exposed. A mid 19th-century stable contains, reset, a small niche with a chamfered two-centred head and a projecting sill.

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Oct 11 2022 2:05PM