Listed Building record MDO43370 - West Bourton Farmhouse or Old Farm, West Bourton

A farmhouse thought to have been built in the seventeenth century, possibly earlier. The building has walls of rubble with a tiled, gable-ended roof with stone-slate verges and brick chimney stacks. A barn is attached. Surviving features of the interior are reported to include a plank-and-muntin cross-passage partition, blocked open fireplaces, and chamfered ceiling beams.

ST 76632923. West Bourton Farmhouse, of two storeys with rubble walls and tiled roofs is of the 17th century. (Listed as "Farmhouse 30 yds south east of Manor Farm" by DOE). <1-2>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 6 (Monograph). SDO99.

‘(25) WEST BOURTON FARM (76632923), house, is two-storeyed and has rubble walls and tiled roofs with stone-slate verges; it is of the 17th century. All windows have casements and the openings are spanned by rough timber lintels. The S. doorway has an 18th-century lead-covered segmental hood resting on scroll-shaped timber brackets. Inside, the plan is of class F, with two original open fireplaces, now blocked. A plank-and-muntin partition flanks the through-passage on the side opposite the central chimneybreast. The bressummer of the E. fireplace is cambered and deeply chamfered. The first floor rests on deeply chamfered beams, one with shaped stops.’

<2> DOE (HHR), Oct 1951, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Shaftesbury RD, 3 (Scheduling record). SDO17584.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 202328 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Feb 8 2022 10:31AM