Listed Building record MDO14629 - Iles Farm House, Village Street, Leigh

A farmhouse built in the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century, with coursed rubble stone walls, and a slate roof with stone eaves courses and coped gables, brick end stacks.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 131 (Monograph). SDO97.

'The following monuments, unless otherwise described, are of the 17th century and of two storeys; the walls are of rubble and the roofs are thatched or covered with modern materials. Some of the buildings have exposed ceiling-beams and original fireplaces. … (5) Cross Farm, house 30 yards E. of (2), was rebuilt perhaps in the 18th century but incorporates some 17th-century stone-mullioned windows, the lower ones with labels. Inside the building are two reused moulded beams. '

<2> Ordnance Survey, c 1962, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 map, epoch five, (ST 6214 0860) Iles Farm (NAT) (Map). SDO13903.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 887194 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 22 2024 3:54PM