Listed Building record MDO27798 - West Cruxton Farmhouse, Cruxton, Maiden Newton

Late sixteenth century farmhouse, with nineteenth century extension at south end. Flint and dressed stone walls, with stone base and clay-tile roofs with stone gable-copings and moulded kneelers.

West Cruxton Farmhouse, situated nearly one mile SSE of Maiden Newton Church, is a 16th century two-storey building of coursed ashlar and flint with central, north and south porches of three storeys. The NW end of the house has three original buttresses and the NE porch has a doorway with moulded jambs and a four-centred arch. <1>

(SY 60259654). West Cruxton Farmhouse is now known as Cruxton Manor. The house has been recently modernised but retains its original character. <2>

Cruxton Manor (name confirmed) (b) is as described above (see GP). <4>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 153 (Monograph). SDO97.

<2> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 17-JAN-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1974 (Map). SDO17396.

(SY 60259654) Cruxton Manor (NAT)

<4> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F2 NJA 05-FEB-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<4.1> Allen, L, and Taylor, Mrs, L Allen (Foreman Cruxton Manor) and Mrs Taylor (Secretary) (Verbal communication). SDO20239.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453083 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 30 2023 12:43PM