Listed Building record MDO16090 - Hemsworth House, Witchampton

A farmhouse built in the sixteenth century. A wing was added in the early eighteenth century, and the front was remodelled and further extensions added in the nineteenth century. The building has walls of brick and flint, and a slate-covered roof.

HEMSWORTH (96910572), formerly East or Lower Hemsworth, a farmhouse of two storeys with walls of flint and of brick and with a slate-covered roof, appears to be of 16th-century origin. Early in the 18th century a wing was added on the S.W., at the S.E. end of the original range. A late 18th-century view of the house appears on Isaac Taylor's estate map. In the 19th century the S.W. front was remodelled and further extensions were made to S.W. and to N.W. of the original range. <1>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 108 (Monograph). SDO129.

‘(18) Hemsworth (96910572), formerly East or Lower Hemsworth, a farm house of two storeys with walls of flint and of brick and with a slate-covered roof, appears to be of 16th-century origin. Early in the 18th century a wing was added on the S.W., at the S.E. end of the original range. A late 18th-century view of the house appears on Isaac Taylor's estate map (D.C.R.O., 1930: 23, 38). In the 19th century the S.W. front was remodelled and further extensions were made to S.W. and to N.W. of the original range. Inside, some rooms have exposed chamfered beams.’

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

(ST 96910572) Hemsworth (NAT)

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209309 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Feb 3 2023 9:52AM