Listed Building record MDO17032 - Eastington Farmhouse, Worth Matravers

A farmhouse built in the late seventeenth century and enlarged in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The original building had a T-shaped plan. It has been greatly altered, but retains several original windows, some re-used. The walls of the building are of stone rubble and it has a stone slate roof with stone chimney stacks. A projecting block at the front houses what is thought to have been originally a dairy or bakehouse.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2, 413 (Monograph). SDO149.

‘The following monuments unless otherwise described are of two storeys, or in a few instances of one storey with attics, and have walls of local Purbeck stone rubble and stone-slated roofs; they are of the late 18th or early 19th century. … (19) Eastington Farm (983777) was built in the late 17th century on a T-shaped plan giving three heated rooms on the ground floor; it was enlarged in the 18th and 19th centuries. The house has been much altered but retains several original round-headed single-light windows, some reset in an added wing.’

<2> Papworth M, 1994, Eastington, Acton, Westwood, Wilkswood, New Barn, Corfe Castle Estate, Wessex Region, 36 (Unpublished document). SWX1388.

This building is the subject of a vernacular building report which will describe it in detail. Eastington is mentioned here because of its archaeological significance. The first known documentary reference to Eastington is in 1209 (Mills 1986, 64). The present house occupies the site of the medieval Eastington Manor and is associated with the earthworks of the settlement 112,074, strip lynchets 112, 075 and pillow mounds 112, 076. The house contains important architectural elements including part of a fifteenth century arch-braced roof. There are also wall paintings which are throught to date from the 17th century. This building was often the home of the steward of the Corfe Castle Estate and its size reflects its past status.

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