Listed Building record MDO45184 - Holeacre Farm, Mapperton

Mapperton Dairy was the old name. it is now known as Holeacre Farm. Although it is listed as a building of historical
interest but I know nothing of its history <3.1>. Authy 2 correct. A well preserved stone built farmhouse with no
trace of modernisation apart from brick chimneys and a modern slate roof. Only one period of building is traceable. <3>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1904 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 50749960) Mapperton Dairy (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 156 (Monograph). SDO97.

'The following monuments, unless otherwise described, are of late 17th-century date and of two storeys; the walls are of rubble and the roofs are covered with thatch or modern slates. Some of the buildings have exposed ceiling-beams. … (6) Mapperton Dairy, 450 yards E.S.E. of the church, has four-light stone windows on the S. front with labels, that over the lower windows being continuous; the doorway has a four-centred head.'

<3> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 26-APR-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<3.1> Wood, Mr, Oral: Mr Wood (tenant farmer), Holeacre Farm, Mapperton (Verbal communication). SDO19137.

<4> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1976 (Map). SDO17396.

(SY 50749960) Mapperton Dairy (NAT)

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450793 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 3 2023 1:59PM