Building record MDO43366 - Bagmore Farmhouse, Silton

A farmhouse built around 1700. The two-storey building has walls of rubble and tiled roofs. It is said to have been used for cloth weaving during the eighteenth century.

ST 78613016. Bagmore Farmhouse of two storeys with rubble walls and tiled roofs dates from circa 1700 and is said to have been used for cloth-weaving during the 18th century. <2>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1962 (Map). SWX1540.

(ST 78613016) Bagmore Farm (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 79 (Monograph). SDO99.

‘(7) BAGMORE FARM (78613016), house, is two-storeyed and has rubble walls and tiled roofs; it dates from c. 1700 and is said to have been used for cloth-weaving during the 18th century. Inside, one room contains an open fireplace with a deeply chamfered and cambered oak bressummer; another room has deeply chamfered ceiling beams.’

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 202633 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 7 2022 5:05PM