Monument record MDO47669 - Muckleford Dairy House, Bradford Peverell

This house "is partly built of cob walling. There is one original window of four lights with an oak frame. In the attic at the east end is a plaster panel with conventional foliage-decoration with the initials and date E. and A.S. (for Sheridan) 1655 M.S". <2>

SY 63979357. This house is in the process of being demolished and all that remains is walling approximately 1.0 metre high. <3>

The building was known as Muckleford Dairy House. <3.1>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1930 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 63969356) (Muckleford Dairy House) (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 35 (Monograph). SDO97.

<3> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 24-JAN-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<3.1> Gray, Mr, Oral: Mr Gray (dairyman), Muckleford Farm, Bradford Peverell (Verbal communication). SDO20422.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453709 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 2 2024 2:40PM