Listed Building record MDO10993 - Loders Hall, Main Street, Loders

A former,Vicarage, now private house built in the late 19th century with an early C16 building incorporated. Built of rubble-stone walls and clay tile roofs with decorative ridging.

The vicarage house, garden and 2 acres of ground belonging to it were valued at #3 p.a. in a return to the Commission in 1650. <1>

The Vicarage incorporates an early 16thc. building, much altered and enlarged in the 19thc. A room on the ground floor has ogee-headed windows, and fireplace, a doorway and small windows in the N. wall are of similar early date. <3>

This well preserved stone built house is still in use as a vicarage. The room referred to in T2 faces south. The outline of the 16th cent building cannot readily be separated from later alterations by visual inspection. <4>

<1> Shipp, W, and Hodson, J W (eds), 1863, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. 3rd edition. Volume 2, 312 (Monograph). SWX1269.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1931 (Map). SWX1540.

[SY 49229423] VIC.[ARAGE] [T.I.]

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 140 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(4) The Vicarage, 100 yards E. of the church, is of two storeys ; the walls are of rubble and the roofs are tile-covered. The house incorporates an early 16th-century building which was much altered and enlarged in the 19th century. A room on the ground floor has two windows, both of three ogee-headed lights ; the ceiling has original moulded beams forming nine panels ; the fireplace has moulded jambs and four-centred arch in a square head with quatrefoil spandrels. A passage, to the W., has a doorway with chamfered jambs, square head and label, and in the N. wall of the house are two small cinquefoiled lights.'

<4> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F2 JR 02-MAY-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450084 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 22 2024 2:15PM