Listed Building record MDO45080 - Strode Manor Farm, Netherbury

The house: of 17thc date with later and modern additions on the W. and N. The S. front has some original windows; the doorway has an 18thc surround. Outbuildings: form a quadrangle. On the E side the one storey cow-byre with an open front is divided into bays by circular stone piers. The stables on the N. have been largely rebuilt. Barn: on W. of quadrangle is of 7 bays, apparently extended in the 17thc. Pigeon House: N.W. of house is rectangular and gabled to E.&W. <3>

Known as STRODE MANOR FARM and once owned by the GALLOPS of GALLUP POLL fame. It was a manor house but sometime in the 19th cent there was a fire. The GALLOPS then built and moved to STRODE MANOR PLACE [for which See Dorset 29 SW 2]

A well preserved but unoccupied stone built farm house. In the north are brick lean-to outhouses and adjoining the house in the west is a barn which has been partially converted into living quarters. The roof is part stone tiles and partly modern slate. Only one main period of building could be traced.

The pigeon house is similar in construction and roofing to the houses. It is of two stories with pigeon boxes in the upper gable ends and with no exit except by windows on the East & West lower floor and a doorway in the North. The walls are 0.8m thick and there is no dateable feature. <4>

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

[SY 45209867] STRODE MANOR FARM [TI]

<2> DOE (HRR), 1950, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Beaminster Rural District 1950, 28 (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.

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 Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 10-MAY-55 (Unpublished document).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

<4.1> Mrs Cox, Oral: Mrs Cox (owner, occupier), Great Strode House, Netherbury (Verbal communication). SDO19044.

<5> Historic England, Historic England Archive, OS55/F132/8 (Index). SDO14738.

STRODE MANOR FARM AT NETHERBY, MEDIEVAL PIGEON HOUSE FROM SE.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 449956 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 14 2022 6:58PM