Building record MDO45099 - Fowlers Dairy, Filford, Netherbury

Fowler's Dairy is a 17th century house of squared and coursed rubble with a thatched roof. It retains some original
stone-mullioned windows and has a moulded string between the storeys on the south front, forming a label to ground floor windows and doorways. <2-3>

Fowler's Dairy (name confirmed by owner) is a well preserved farmhouse of apparently one period of building. Details are as given by Authorities 2 and 3. <4>

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

(SY 44239737) Fowler's Dairy (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), 174 (Monograph). SDO97.

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 Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 10-MAY-55 (Unpublished document).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

<4.1> Oral: T Hansford (owner), Furleigh Cross (Verbal communication). SDO19062.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450029 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 16 2022 12:16PM