Building record MDO45911 - Botany Bay Barn, Bloxworth

(SY 884965) Botany Bay Barn with brick walls and thatched roof was built in the late 18th century. A later porch on the south side is built against the buttresses that flanked the original doorway.

National Record of the Historic Environment, 455801 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch 1, Dorset XXXIII.15 Surveyed: 1887, Published: 1888 (Map). SDO10239.

'Botany Bay Barn'

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

(SY 88469655) Botany Bay Barn (NAT)

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1 (Monograph). SDO148.

‘(27) Botany Bay Barn (884965), with brick walls and a thatched roof, was built in the late 18th century (plan, p. lxvi). A later porch on the S. side is built against the buttresses that flanked the original doorway. The roof trusses have tie and collar beams, which incorporate some reused timbers.’

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Oct 9 2025 12:39PM