Listed Building record MDO44027 - World's End, Mapperton, Sturminster Marshall

A public house thought to have been built in the seventeenth century, but with many later alterations and additions. The building has walls of cob and brick, and a thatched roof. There is a single-storey range of stores and former stables at the back.

SY 907977. World's End public house may be late 16th or early 17th century but has been much altered. It was extended in the 18th century. (2)

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1902 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 90759778) World's End (PH) (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2, 290 (Monograph). SDO149.

‘The following monuments unless otherwise described are in Mapperton and are of one storey with attics, with cob walls and thatched roofs. … (43) World's End p.h. (907977), ½ m. S. of Mapperton, may be of late 16th or early 17th-century origin but has been much altered; it was extended in the 18th century.’

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457362 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 9 2022 3:24PM