Building record MDO39113 - West Luccombe Farmhouse, Milton Abbas

A farmhouse thought to have been built in the early 19th century. The building has walls covered in render and the roof is part thatch and part tile.

WEST LUCCOMBE FARM (80940124), house, is of two-storeys with rendered walls and with roofs partly thatched and partly slated; it is of the early 19th century. The S. front is symmetrical and of seven bays. <2-3>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey map 1:10,560, 1968 (Map). SDO18658.

(ST 80940124) West Luccombe Farm (NAT).

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 198 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(14) WEST LUCCOMBE FARM (80940124), house, 700 yds. S.E. of (2), is of two storeys with rendered walls and with roofs partly thatched and partly slated; it is of the early 19th century. The S. front is symmetrical and of seven bays. Some 50 yds. to the S. is a pair of Cottages, of two storeys with cob walls and thatched roofs; these cottages appear on Woodward's map of 1769–71.’

<3> DOE (HHR), 1954, List of Buildings of Special Historic or Architectural Interest: Blandford Rural District, 28 (Scheduling record). SDO17701.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205813 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 18 2022 10:57AM