Listed Building record MDO9536 - Manswood Farmhouse, Moor Crichel

Manswood Farm is a one storey building with attics and has brick walls and a tiled roof. A stone over the doorway records that it was built in 1725.

Manswood may correspond with the Medieval settlement of Chetterwood, recorded in 1215, but the farmhouse is the earliest structure now found there. <1>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 44 (Monograph). SDO129.

'Manswood in the W. of the parish may correspond with the mediaeval settlement of Chetterwood, recorded in 1215 (Fägersten, 80), but a farmhouse dated 1725 is the earliest structure now found there. Other Manswood buildings noted on O.S. 1811 appear to have been rebuilt since 1850. … (7) Manswood Farm (97720793), cottage, of one storey with dormer-windowed attics, has brick walls and a thatched roof. A stone over the doorway records that it was built in 1725. The E. front is symmetrical and of two bays, with a central doorway and casement windows. Inside, the plan is of class T.'

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1977 (Map). SDO17396.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209292 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 29 2023 8:44AM