Listed Building record MDO16053 - Petersham Farmhouse, Holt

A farmhouse thought to have been built around the middle of the eighteenth century, with later additions and alterations including a nineteenth-century dairy and cheese loft, and twentieth-century extension. The building has walls of brick with a tiled roof with brick chimney stacks. Surviving interior features are reported to include chamfered ceiling beams and open fireplaces.

Petersham Farm is a late 18th century two storey building with brick walls and a tiled roof. Inside some lightly chamfered beams areexposed. <2>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1974 (Map). SDO17396.

(SU 02080435) Petersham Farm (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East) (Monograph). SDO129.

‘Unless otherwise described, the following farmhouses and cottages are of the 18th century and have brick walls and thatched roofs. … (16) Petersham Farm (02080435), house, of two storeys with a tiled roof, is of the second half of the 18th century. The S. front is symmetrical and of two bays with a central doorway. The plan is of class T. Inside, some lightly chamfered beams are exposed.’

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213233 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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