Listed Building record MDO17401 - Burngate Farmhouse, West Lulworth

SY 835816. Burngate Farmhouse, of two storeys with walls of rubble, partly stuccoed, comprises two wings built against two sides of a barn and linked only by a porch. The house is of uncertain date but may include material from Mount Poynings (see SY 88 SW 10); the main south west block was completely remodelled in the 19th century, but the wall thicknesses suggests that it is at least in part of earlier construction. The north east wing has windows, one of which was formerly a doorway, all framed with revised 16th and 17th century dressed stonework. <4>

<1> Shipp, W, and Hodson, J W (eds), 1863, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. 3rd edition. Volume 2, 441 (Monograph). SWX1269.

‘Burngate, a manor, farm and grange, belonging anciently to the Abbey of Bindon", (see SY 88 NE 9) which passed to Lord Poynings (at the dissolution of the abbey in (1539) and later to the Weld family. The farm was sequestered in 1645.’

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1902 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 83538164) Burngate Farm (NR)

<3> Page, W (ed), 1908, The Victoria History of the County of Dorset 2, 82, 86 (Monograph). SWX1805.

‘A manor, farm, and grange, belonging anciently to the Abbey of Bindon, lies about a mile west from East Lullworth, near St. Andrew’s Lullworth. In 1203 the lands of the abbot of Bindon in Bronegate were valued at 34l. 8s. 8d. It passed from Lord Poynings to the Welds in the same manner as Little Bindon. In 1645 this farm, belonging to Humphrey Weld, esq. was sequestered, value 164l. 190l. This manor, Little Bindon, and West Lullworth, with rights, royalties, court-leet, view of frank-pledge, court-baron, &c. value, in Hutchins’s time, 9l. 11s. 8d. and the farm in Burngate and West Lullworth, value 120l. at the same period, belonging to Joseph Weld esq.’

<4> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 152 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(4) Burngate Farm, house (835816), of two storeys with walls of rubble partly rendered with stucco and with tiled roofs, comprises two wings built against two sides of a barn and linked only by a porch. It is of uncertain date and may include material from Mount Poynings (Monument 34). The main S.W. block was completely remodelled in the 19th century, but the wall thicknesses suggest that it is at least in part of earlier construction. The N.E. wing has windows, one of which was formerly a doorway, all framed with reused 16th and 17th-century dressed stonework; inside is a chamfered ceiling beam also probably reused.
Barn, in the re-entrant angle between the two parts of the house, is probably of 16th-century origin; the rubble walls have been largely rebuilt and the roof is entirely modern, but the lower parts of two jointed cracks remain at and near the S. end.’

<5> Mills, A D, 1977, The place-names of Dorset, Part 1, 130-1 (Monograph). SWX2852.

Burngate Farm, mentioned as a grange in 1233-4 and 1279, belonged to Bindon Abbey which possessed two virgates of land in (West) Lulworth from 1172 and tithes in Burngate in 1535.

<6> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 31-JUL-81 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

‘Burngate Farm (name confirmed) is as described, in good preservation.’

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455585 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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