Listed Building record MDO45217 - Warmstall Farm, Symondsbury

A farmhouse built around 1600 with later additions at each end. Surviving features of the interior are reported to include a ceiling and fireplace.

Built c.1600 and has later additions at each end. The E part has 17th century stone windows of 4 and 5 lights. The middle room has an original open-timbered ceiling with cross beams and the E room remains of a 17th century stone fireplace. <2>

Known as WARMSTALL FARM. Scheduled by the Ministry of Works as a building of historic interest <3.1>. Description in <2> correct. The building which is at present under reconstruction,is built of stone with a thatched roof. The west end a later addition, is of brick. <3>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1930 (Map). SWX1540.

[SY42089479] Wormstall Farm [TI]

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 239 (Monograph). SDO97.

<3> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 17-FEB-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<3.1> Lyall, Mrs J S, Oral: Mrs J S Lyall (tenant), Warmstall Farm, Symondsbury (Verbal communication). SDO19152.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450203 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 4 2023 4:32PM