Listed Building record MDO27756 - Park, Broadwindsor

Park is a two-storeyed early 17th century house of rough ashlar with a thatched roof. It retains mullioned windows and fireplaces with four-centred heads. <1>

(ST 44380332) Lower Park Farm, early 17th century. <2-3>

Park, (formerly listed as Lower Park Farmhouse). Grade II*. <5>

<1> DOE (HRR), 1950, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Beaminster Rural District 1950, 10 (Scheduling record). SDO17358.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 55 and Plate 39 (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 covered with thatch, tiles or slates. Some of the buildings have exposed ceiling-beams and original fireplaces. … (31) Lower Park Farm, house (Plate 39) 980 yards N.N.E. of the parish church, retains a number of original stone-mullioned windows with labels. The porch has an outer archway with moulded jambs, square head and label.'

<3> Ordnance Survey, OS 231 (L Lawrence Smith Owner Mar 1957) (Index). SDO18728.

<4> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1968 (Map). SWX1540.

Park (NR)

<5> Department of the Environment, 1984, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: District of West Dorset (Parishes of Burstock, Broadwindsor, Mapperton, Netherbury, North Poorton, Pilsdon, Powerstock and Stoke Abbott), 5 (Scheduling record). SDO16351.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 193076 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 3 2022 4:27PM