Listed Building record MDO14767 - Higher Farmhouse and front boundary wall, Yetminster

A detached house built in the seventeent century. The building has rubble stone walls, and a hipped asbestos tile roof, with brick end stacks. . Date stones on front wall have the inscriptions "A.W. 1624" and "A.W. 1630". Surviving interior features are reported to include a large open fireplace.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West) (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. … (14) Higher Farm, house 20 yards E. of (13), retains on the S. front four of its original stone-mullioned windows with labels; on this front are two stones with the initials A.W. and dated respectively 1624 and 1630.’

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Jul 16 2015 9:35AM