Listed Building record MDO31678 - Brambles Farmhouse, West Parley

A farmhouse built in the early eighteenth century, with some later alterations. The two-storey building has brick walls and a tiled roof. The brick walls are in Flemish Bond with blue headers, and these form the letters ‘B I M’ on the south gable of the house.

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<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 76 (Monograph). SDO129.

‘(3) BRAMBLE’S FARM (08669741), house, of two storeys with red brick walls patterned with blue header bricks and with tiled roofs, dates from early in the 18th century. The principal range has a plan of class T, and a symmetrical E. front of five bays with square-headed casement windows in both storeys; the window above the entrance has been blocked. The S. gable bears the letters B I M in blue headers. Inside, the ground-floor rooms have chamfered beams, and the staircase has a heavy handrail supported on stout turned balusters, and square newel posts with ball finials.’

Record last edited

Oct 10 2016 4:43PM