Building record MDO45914 - Muston Farm, Winterborne Muston, Winterborne Kingston

Muston Farmhouse, originally single-storeyed is now a two-storeyed building with walls partly of banded brick and flint and partly of coursed rubble. It is probably of 17th century origin but was extensively rebuilt in the late 18th or early 19th century. NGR incorrect. <2>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 87149766) Muston Farm (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 301 (Monograph). SDO136.

'(4) Muston Farm (87149866), house, some 920 yds. E. of the church, is of two stories and has walls partly of coursed rubble and partly of banded brick and flint, and slated roofs. It is probably of 17th-century origin but it was extensively rebuilt late in the 18th or early in the 19th century.

The E. front is of four bays and is principally of banded flint and brickwork, representing the later rebuilding, but a slightly projecting wall of coursed rubble at each end of the elevation appears to survive from the earlier period. In height these walls rise only to the level of the first-floor window-sills, indicating that the house was formerly single-storied. The W. front is of mixed rubble and brickwork with an ashlar quoin at the N.W. corner. The gabled N. and S. end walls and the southern part of the W. wall are masked by additions that are probably of the late 18th century. Inside, the plan of the original range comprises a through-passage with one room to the N. and two rooms to the S.; the two southern rooms are separated from the W. wall by a passage which ends, to the S., at a doorway with a head with a raised centre.'

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455805 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Mar 15 2023 4:03PM