Listed Building record MDO50146 - 5 Main Street, Broadmayne

A farmhouse built in the seventeenth century, refashioned in the early nineteenth century. The building has walls of brick and a slate roof. The front of the building is hung with mathematical tiles. Changes made in the early nineteenth century include the building of a stair case against the back wall.

Dorset Heritage Explorer website feedback, Rosemarie Barr, 15 May 2026 (Verbal communication). SDO21477.

‘Manor farm house belonged to my grandmother and before her, her family. Her maiden name was Coleman. My uncle once took me to the graveyard next door and showed me the graves. He knew who was buried even though some stones were eroded away.‘

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1, 31 (Monograph). SDO148.

‘(2) House is of two storeys; the walls are of rubble and the roofs are slate-covered. The front was hung with mathematical tiles early in the 19th century, and the wide doorway, the three wide casements with wooden lintels on the ground floor and the four smaller casements with segmental heads on the first floor are of the same date. The gabled porch was added late in the 19th century. Inside, the plan comprises a through passage and three rooms; each room has a fireplace, one in each gable end and the third backing on the passage. As part of a thorough renovation of the inside c. 1830–50 the present staircase was built alongside the back wall, with access from a longitudinal passage partitioned off in the middle room N. of the chimney-stack; the disposition strongly suggests that the original lay-out resembled that of Brenscombe Farm (Monument 145) in Corfe Castle parish, and that the house was built in the 17th century.’

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Aug 12 2026 4:06PM