Listed Building record MDO43243 - Elsdon's Farmhouse, Elsdon's Lane, Wootton Fitzpaine

A farmhouse built in the seventeenth century. The building has walls of flint and stone rubble with some blue lias quoins, and a thatched roof with brick chimney stacks. The front door leads into a cross passage. A tablet over a ground floor window has the inscription 'King Charles II stayed here September 22 1651. Erected March 31 1902'. Surviving features of the interior are reported to include plank partitions in the cross-passage, chamfered ceiling beams and an open fireplace.

National Record of the Historic Environment, 449756 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Department of the Environment, 1950, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Bridport Rural District 1950, p 29 (Scheduling record). SDO17327.

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 267 (Monograph). SDO97.

Department of the Environment, 1984, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: District of West Dorset (Parishes of Allington, Catherston Leweston, Charmouth, Chideock, Stanton St Gabriel, Symondsbury, Whitechurch Canonicorum and Wootton Fitzpaine) (Scheduling record). SDO16350.

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Jul 22 2024 4:37PM