Listed Building record MDO8857 - Barn at Tomson Farm, Winterborne Tomson, Anderson

A barn the main part of which was built in the early seventeenth century, with rubblestone walls. The building was extended or partly re-built in the nineteenth century; this later part has timber-framed walls set on a stone plinth. The building incorporates a dovecote.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1 (Monograph). SDO146.

‘(4) TOMSON FARM (88569740) … A Barn, 50 yds. W. of the house, was partly rebuilt in the 19th century but to the S. are two original bays, of the early 17th century. It has rubble walls with squared rubble quoins and weathered coping and it retains two original raised archbraced open cruck-trusses of very heavy scantling. A projecting wing to the W. is of two storeys and has on the ground floor a chamfered square-headed doorway with a moulded label; the upper storey is a pigeon-cote and has a small square window with chamfered reveals and a moulded label.’

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Jan 7 2021 10:45AM