Listed Building record MDO43220 - Crocker's Farmhouse, Twyford, Compton Abbas

A farmhouse with stones inscribed 'ID 1660' and 'TD 1660'. The house has two storeys and attics, and is set out on an L-shaped plan. The building has walls of stone ashlar and thatched roofs. Surviving features of the interior are reported to include plank-and-muntin partitions and fireplaces.

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

(ST 84641968) Crocker's Farm (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 14 (Monograph). SDO99.

‘(3) CROCKER'S FARM (84641968), house, of two storeys with attics and with ashlar walls and thatched roofs, dates from 1660. The original stone windows are of four, three and two square-headed lights under weathered labels with square stops. The plan is L-shaped, with the main range lying N.—S. and a gabled W. wing at the N. end. The main doorway is near the middle of the N. wall and a W. doorway opens near the re-entrant angle; the latter has a chamfered four-centred head and continuous jambs. Incised on ashlar blocks over the W. doorway and the adjacent window are 'TD 1660' in an ornamental margin, and 'ID 1660'. Inside, several rooms retain plank-and-muntin partitions. Fireplaces occur on the S. end wall of the range and on the W. wall of the wing. Adjacent to the farmhouse on the S.W. is a Granary on staddle stones, with timber and ashlar walls, and a thatched roof.’

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 206047 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 10 2022 3:59PM