Listed Building record MDO9242 - Hastings Farm House, Puddletown

Hastings Farmhouse consists of a straight range with a brick-faced ground floor and cob walls on the first floor. Above the main doorway of the east front is a stone inscribed 'A H 1652' which is the probable date of the building.

SY 76109179. Hastings Farmhouse consists of a straight range with a brick-faced ground floor and cob walls on the first floor. Above the main doorway of the east front is a stone inscribed 'A H 1652' which is the probable date of the building. <2>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 76109179) Hastings Farm (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 229 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘The following monuments, unless otherwise described, are of the 18th century and of two storeys, or one storey with attics; the walls are of brick and the roofs are thatched. … (20) Hastings Farm (76109179), house, 15/8 m. S. of the church, has ground-floor walls faced with English-bonded brickwork, with three courses of stretchers to one of headers, and cob walls on the first floor. In the cob above the main doorway of the E. front is a stone inscribed 'A.H. 1652', a probable date for the building. The plan is a straight range of three rooms, with windows to E. and W. and fireplaces in the gabled N. and S. walls, the middle room being unheated. The present partitions are modern and details of the original ground plan are lost. The windows are of the 19th century.’

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454932 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Sep 27 2023 10:28AM