Listed Building record MDO27819 - Red House Farmhouse, The Street, Motcombe

Late eighteenth century house, with coursed, squared rubble walls with right hand additional bay in brick. Tiled, gable-ended roof with brick stacks to ends of ranges. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

Red House Farm has a symmetrical east front of three bays. The walls are of rubble and the roofs tiled with stone-slate wings. <2>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey map 1:10,560, 1962 (Map). SDO18658.

(ST 8465 2620) Red House Farm [NAT]

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 50 (Monograph). SDO99.

'Unless otherwise described the following monuments are of the second half of the eighteenth century and of two storeys ; the walls are of rubble and the roofs are thatched…. (15) Red House Farm (84652620), house, has a symmetrical E. front of three bays, with sashed windows with segmental brick heads and rubble keystones. The roofs are tiled, with stone-slate verges. There are modern extensions on the N. and S. Inside, one room has an open fireplace and bread-oven, now blocked.'

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 912833 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 1 2022 1:12PM