Listed Building record MDO5858 - Lodge Farm, Pamphill

A house thought to have been built as a royal hunting lodge in the fourteenth century, with later additions and alterations. 15th century, two-storey building. Rubble walls with tiled and stone-slated roof

LODGE FARM cottage, of two storeys with rubble walls and with a tiled and stone-slated roof, may be of late mediaeval origin although it has been suggested that the walls originated as those of a barn, and that two 15th-century windows with traceried heads were brought from elsewhere. perhaps in the 17th century.

Inside, a ground-floor room has stop-chamfered beams resting on stone corbels, and a first-floor room has a beam with hollow-chamfered and triple ovolo mmouldings. Two 15th-century stone windows in the upper storey, blocked externally, have each two trefoil-headed lights with quatrefoil spandrel lights in vertical tracery under two-centred heads. A doorway has a timber frame with a four-centred head. The roof has an arch-braced collar truss rising from ogee-moulded and hollow-chamfered wall-plates with run-out stops; the purlins have curved wind-braces. (2)

Smith, Donald E, 1985, Lodge Farm, Kingston Lacy, Dorset. A report on the investigation of the plaster and painted decoration (Unpublished document). SDO20821.

Dives, J C, 1985, Report on Lodge Farm, Kingston Lacy, Dorset (Unpublished document). SDO20822.

Le Pard, Gordon, 1998, Medieval sundials in Dorset. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 119, 79 (Article in serial). SDO21411.

<1> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 311 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 48 (Monograph). SDO129.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1978 (Map). SDO17396.

(ST 97430215) Lodge Farm (NAT)

<4> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1988, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1987, 135 (Serial). SDO87.

<5> Groves, Cathy, 1994, Tree-ring analysis of oak timbers from Lodge Farm, Kingston Lacy estate, Dorset (Article in serial). SWX1121.

<6> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 2001, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 2000, 162-3 (Serial). SDO11605.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209487 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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May 1 2025 12:55PM