Building record MDO43405 - Folly Farmhouse, Bowden, Kington Magna

ST 77282383. Folly Farmhouse, Bowden of two storeys with rubble walls, is of 17th century origin. The original building in the north east part of the range appears to have been single-storeyed at one time; the south west part of the range and upper storey of the north east part being added in the late 18th or early 19th century. <2>

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

(ST 772238) Folly Farm (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 43 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(23) Folly Farm (77282383), house, of two storeys, with rubble walls and a tiled roof, is of 17th-century origin. The original building, in the N.E. part of the range, has low casement windows with heavy timber surrounds and appears formerly to have been single-storeyed. The S.W. part of the range and the upper storey of the N.E. part were added at the end of the 18th or early in the 19th century.'

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 202451 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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