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). (RCHME 1970)

Historic England, National Record of the Historic Environment, 452952 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 66629522) Forston Barn (NAT)

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. … (18) Forston Barn, 100 yds. S.W. of the foregoing, has walls of banded flint and rubble with brick quoins and a thatched roof. It is probably of the late 17th or early 18th century, with later rebuilding at the S. end and in the transeptal bays.'

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Feb 6 2026 12:17PM