Building record MDO44091 - Biddlesgate Farm, Cranborne

A farmhouse built in the late seventeenth century with a wing added around the middle of the eighteenth century and a small nineteenth-century extension. The building has walls of cob and brick and a slate roof.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SU 07741428) Biddlesgate Farm (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 14 (Monograph). SDO129.

'(27) Biddlesgate Farm (07741428), house, of one storey with attics, has walls of cob and of brick, and slate-covered roofs. The original range has a class-J plan and is of the late 17th century. About the middle of the 18th century a wing with a class-S plan was added at right-angles to the range, on the E., and early in the 19th century a small extension was made on the W. of the range. Inside, the dairy at the N. end of the original range has a chamfered beam with run-out stops. The 18th-century wing contains a chamfered beam with rounded stops.'

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213735 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 19 2022 4:00PM