Listed Building record MDO8927 - Staddlestones, Milton Road, Milborne St Andrew

A farmhouse built around the middle of the 17th century, with late 18th-century additions. The building has walls of cob covered in plaster, and a thatched roof with brick chimney stack. A projecting wing at the front was probably formerly a dairy. Surviving features of the interior are reported to include open fireplaces and ceiling beams.

At Milborne St. Andrew is the farmhouse formerly belonging to the Coles family (presumably Coles Farm); part of which was "anciently a chapel, bones having been dug up in or near the end of it. It was entire, and officiated in when Mr. King was vicar. "(Thomas King, vicar, 1645-1679). <1>

SY 80329812. Coles Farmhouse of two storeys with cob walls above a flint plinth and thatched roof is probably of the middle of the 17th century with additions in the early 19th century. A banded flint and rubble barn, 30 yards north of the farmhouse is perhaps of the late 17th or early 18th century. <3>

<1> Shipp, W, and Hodson, J W (eds), 1863, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. 3rd edition. Volume 2 (Monograph). SWX1269.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1902 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 80309812) Coles Farm (NAT)

<3> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 178 (Monograph). SDO136.

'(6) Coles Farm (80329812), house, ½ m. N. of the church, is two-storied with cob walls above a flint plinth, and thatched roofs; it is probably of the middle of the 17th century. The plan of the original range is similar to that of (5) and has the same orientation; a large chimney-stack serves the S. and middle rooms of a three-room range while the N. room remains unheated. At an early date and perhaps still in the 17th century a ground-floor room was added to the E. of the middle room. Rooms added to the N. end of the range and to the W. side of the S. room are probably of the early 19th century. The original S. end wall together with the side of the last named addition now composes a 19th-century S. façade. A Barn 30 yds. N. of the farmhouse, of banded flint and rubble and with a tiled roof, is perhaps of the late 17th or early 18th century.'

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455866 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Aug 16 2024 2:50PM