Listed Building record MDO45254 - Westbury House, Tarrant Gunville

A house formed from two cottages, one built around the middle of the eighteenth century and the other in the late eighteenth century. The two-storey building has walls of cob, chequered flint and ashlar and a thatched roof. There is a nineteenth-century addition on the east, built of flint with brick quoins..

Historic England, National Record of the Historic Environment, 210272 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

ST 9244 1293: Westbury (NAT)

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 95 (Monograph). SDO99.

‘Unless otherwise described, the following 18th-century dwellings are of two storeys and have cob walls and thatched roofs; the ground-plans are of class S. … (15) Westbury (92441293), farmhouse, was originally two class-S cottages. One cottage is of the mid 18th century and has cob walls; at right-angles on the W. is a late 18th-century cottage with walls of chequered flint and ashlar, probably derived from Eastbury. Additions on the E., of flint with brick quoins, are of the 19th century.’

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Oct 8 2026 4:32PM