Building record MDO47067 - Shatcombe Farmhouse, Wynford Eagle

The house is partly modern, but incorporates a 17thc. building of L-shaped plan, with a later extension on the S.W. <2>

The present farmhouse, with its buildings known as SHATCOMBE FARM, was built in 1904. The cottage immediately N. of the farmhouse - the old farmhouse - has no name.

The cottage has stone walls and a thatched roof except for the N.E. part which is slated. There are modern windows and brick chimneys and no particular features of antiquity. The cottage is temporarily unoccupied, and is in fair condition. <3>

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

[SY56729532] SHATCOMBE FARM [T.I.]

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 270 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(6) Shatcombe Farm, house 1 m. S.W. of the church, is of two storeys; the walls are of rubble and the roofs are covered with thatch and slates. It is partly modern but incorporates a 17th-century building of L-shaped plan with a later extension on the S.W.'

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 26-MAY-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3.1> Oral: Clerk, Messrs Ensor & Sons, Auctioneers and Valuers, Yeovil, 25-MAY-55 (Verbal communication). SDO20080.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450710 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 24 2023 4:39PM