Monument record MDO44874 - Medieval manor house, Lower Abbott's Wooton Farm, Whitchurch Canonicorum

The manor of Wotton Abbas, alias Abbots Wotton, was "Wideton" in Domesday. In the time of Elizabeth I it passed, with the ancient mansion house, to William Every. The Elizabethan manor- house was demolished about 1858. <1>

An outbuilding at lower Abbot's Wootton Farm, of two storeys with exposed ceiling beams, dates from circa 1700. <3>

The modern house stands on the same site as the old one and incorporates some of the material from it, including the coat- of-arms over the porch. <4>

<1> Shipp, W, and Hodson, J W (eds), 1863, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. 3rd edition. Volume 2, 264 (Monograph). SWX1269.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1930 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 37959635) Lower Abbot's Wootton Farm (NAT) on site of Manor House (NR)

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 264 (Monograph). SDO97.

<4> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 15-FEB-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<4.1> Oral: G H Glyde (tenant), Lower Abbotts Wootton Farm, Whitchurch Canonicorum (Verbal communication). SDO18923.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 449735 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 25 2022 4:20PM