Building record MDO46880 - Forston Barn, Charminster

A barn thought to have been built in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century, with later rebuilding in places. The building has walls of banded flint and rubble, with brick quoins.

Forston Barn, situated 100 yards south west of Pulston Barn has banded flint and rubble walls with brick quoins and a thatched roof. It probably dates from the late C17th or early C18th, with later rebuilding at the south end and in the transeptal bays. (Another Forston Barn is also shown on OS 6" 1903 at SY 671965). <2>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 66629522) Forston Barn (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 70 (Monograph). SDO146.

'The following monuments, unless otherwise described, are two-storied, with walls of banded rubble and flint, of rough ashlar and flint, or occasionally of plain rubble. Roofs are generally thatched but in some instances modern materials have been substituted.room has recently been brought from elsewhere. There are a number of original stop-chamfered ceiling beams. … (17) Pulston Barn (66719530) has walls of banded flint and rubble, with ashlar quoins, subsequently repaired and heightened in brickwork; the roof is tiled. The entrance is in the centre of the N. side and a projecting exit bay occurs in the middle of the S. side. The structure appears to be of the late 16th or early 17th century, but the brick repairs and the roof are of the 19th century. Hutchins (II, 544) implies that the building originated as a chapel, but the existing fabric shows nothing to substantiate this.'

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452952 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Jul 28 2023 4:34PM