Listed Building record MDO44591 - Whetham Farmhouse, Burstock

A farmhouse built in the seventeenth century. The building has walls of rough ashlar and a thatched roof. Surviving original features are reported to include stone-mullioned windows.

Whetham Farm is a 17th century two-storeyed house with walls of rough ashlar and thatched roof. It retains some original stone-mullioned windows, two with moulded labels. <2>

Whetham Farm is correctly described by Authorities 2 and 3. There is a modern addition along the NW side. <4>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1930 (Map). SWX1540.

(ST 41350357) Whetham Farm (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 57 (Monograph). SDO97.

'The following monuments, unless otherwise described, are of the 17th century and of two storeys. The walls are of stone and the roofs are thatched. Some of the buildings have exposed ceiling-beams. … (6) Whetham Farm, house 1,175 yards N.W. of the church, retains some original stone-mullioned windows, two with moulded labels.'

<3> DOE (HRR), 1950, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Beaminster Rural District 1950, 13 (Scheduling record). SDO17358.

<4> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 01-MAR-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 193067 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 3 2022 3:43PM