Building record MDO43385 - Bowridge Hill Farm, Gillingham

Two-storeyed with coursed rubble walls and thatched roofs dates form the early C18th. The south front is symmetrical and of three bays, with a central doorway and with three-light sashed windows in the flanking bays and above the doorway. <2>

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

(ST 8141 2784) Bowbridge Hill Farm [NAT]

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 34 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(79) Bowridge Hill Farm (81412784), house, of two storeys, with coursed rubble walls and thatched roofs, dates from early in the 18th century. The S. front is symmetrical and of three bays, with a central doorway and with three-light sashed windows in the flanking bays and above the doorway. Above the E. gable is an ashlar chimney-stack with a date-stone of 1722. A Barn some 50 yds. N. of the house has rubble walls and a slate-covered roof; a date-stone inscribed 'John Coombes, 20th Sept. 1844' is set in the E. gable.'

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 913021 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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