Building record MDO43335 - Lowbrook Farmhouse, Belchalwell, Okeford Fitzpaine

A house thought to have been built in the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century as a single-storey building. An upper storey was added later, perhaps in the 18th century.

Lowbrook Farmhouse is a single-storied building which dates to the late 16th or early 17th century. An upper-storey was added in the 18th century. <2>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1983 (Map). SDO17396.

(ST78950943) Lowbrook Farm [NAT]

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 205 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(28) Lowbrook Farm (78950943), house, 540 yds. S.W. of (2), has timber-frame walls on rubble plinths and is roofed with thatch. To the W. is a modern extension. The original building is of the late 16th or early 17th century and was single-storied; an upper storey was added perhaps in the 18th century. Inside, large fireplaces placed back-to-back under a central chimney-stack have been blocked up. At the W. end of the old part a doorway that now opens into the modern extension has a rough four-centred head.’

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 888262 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Jan 24 2022 10:01AM