Listed Building record MDO45075 - Way Farm, Waytown, Netherbury

Two cottages built in the seventeenth century, combined to make a farmhouse in the eighteenth century. The building has walls of rubble and cob, and a thatched roof. Surviving features of the interior are reported to include a plank-and-muntin partition and stone fireplace.

Way Farm, 17th and 18th century, is of rubble and cob with a thatched roof. The north wing has a plank and muntin partition and a stone fireplace with four-centred head. <2>

Way Farm was formerly two 17th century cottages, joined together in the 18th century. There is an original fireplace in the north building. <3>

Way Farm (name confirmed by occupier) was once two cottages but is now one house (a). It is as described above by Authorities 2 and 3, and is well-preserved, but lacking external features of dateable antiquity. <4>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 47079738) Way Farm (NAT)

<2> DOE (HRR), 1950, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Beaminster Rural District 1950, 27 (Scheduling record). SDO17358.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 175 (Monograph). SDO97.

<3.1> Mrs Wheeler, Oral: Mrs Wheeler (owner, occupier), Way Farm, Waytown, Netherbury (Verbal communication). SDO19039.

<4> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 10-MAY-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 449926 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 14 2022 4:12PM