Listed Building record MDO27762 - Holway Farmhouse, Holway Lane, Cattistock

A. The house was built on a rectangular plan early in the 17thc. and altered externally late in the same century. The building retains much of the 17thc. work internally. B. The barn. N. of the house, is of 17thc. date. <2>

The house and buildings are known as Holway Farm. A stone built, two storeyed house with a slate roof, and mullioned windows. The building is in good condition. The barn 30.0 m. to the N.W. is a rectangular building of stone and brick, with a thatch and galvanized iron roof. It is in poor condition. <3>

No change. <5>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

[ST 58590110] HOLWAY FARM [T.I.]

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West) (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(4) HOLWAY FARM, house 1 m. N.N.W. of the church, is of two storeys; the walls are of stone and the roofs are slate-covered. It was built on a rectangular plan early in the 17th century, but was much altered externally probably late in the 17th century. The house retains most of its three and four-light windows and a doorway with a four-centred head. Above the back doorway are two stone shields with non-heraldic devices, one with I and a bird may be a rebus. Inside the building, the S.E. room has an original plaster ceiling divided into four bays by enriched plastered beams; the bays have geometrical conventional designs. The S.W. room has a fireplace with moulded jambs and four-centred head. Between the hall and the adjoining room is a re-used panelled partition of early 17th-century date, with four panels in the height and carved frieze-panels. The staircase has some original turned balusters. On the first floor, the S.W. room has a fireplace with moulded jambs and four-centred head above which is a cornice and a plaster overmantel; this is of two arched bays with half-bays at the angles enclosing large acanthus-leaves; in the spandrels are conventional leaves. The S.E. room has a similar fireplace with a cornice and plaster overmantel; this overmantel has a fish-tail panel enclosing a lion's-head mask and two sea-horses. The Barn, N. of the house, is of the same period. It is built of alternate courses of clunch and flint and has a thatched roof.’

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 14-MAY-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3.1> Atkinson, Mrs J, Oral: Mrs J Atkinson (occupier), Holway Farm, Cattistock, 11.5.55 (Verbal communication). SDO18811.

<4> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 132 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<5> Field Investigators Comments CJD, F2 CJD 31-MAR-1987 (Unpublished document). SDO16334.

<6> Historic England, Historic England Archive, OS55/F133/3 (Index). SDO14738.

WEST FRONT OF HOLWAY FARM AT CATTISTOCK

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 195852 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 16 2022 3:50PM