Listed Building record MDO4269 - Higher Farm, Margaret Marsh

(ST 82621902) Higher Farm (NAT) (1)

HIGHER FARM (82621902), house, of two storeys with rubble walls and thatched roofs, is of 15th-century origin. Many of the original roof timbers remain in situ, masked by the present roof, which is
superimposed. From details of the timbers the original plan of the house can be deduced; it comprised a two-bay hall, open to the roof, a two-storeyed service bay on the S.W., and another bay on the N.E.
In the 16th century the hall was chambered over and an open fireplaceand chimney-stack were built in the S.W. bay, leaving the S.W. end of the former hall as a through-passage. To the S.W. of the 16th-century chimneystack the roof has been rebuilt. All windows have been renewed. The N.E. bay has been rearranged and retains no old features; its widening on the N.W. certainly is not original. (2)

Higher Farmhouse. Grade II. (3-4)

Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 269 (Monograph). SWX1290.

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

(ST 82621902) Higher Farm (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 46 (Monograph). SDO99.

(4) HIGHER FARM) (82621902), house, of two storeys with rubble walls and thatched roofs, is of 15th-century origin. Many of the original roof timbers remain in situ, masked by the present roof, which is superimposed. From details of the timbers the original plan of the house can be deduced; it comprised a two-bay hall, open to the roof, a two-storeyed service bay on the S.W., and another bay on the N.E. In the 16th century the hall was chambered over and open fireplace and chimneystack were built in the S.W. bay, leaving the S.W. end of the former as a through passage. To the S.W. of the 16th century chimneystack the roof has been rebuilt. All windows have been renewed. The N.E. bay has been rearranged and retains no old features; its widening on the N.W. certainly is not original.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 206020 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<4> DOE (HRR), 1984, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: District of North Dorset, 26 (Scheduling record). SDO17668.

<5> Historic England, Historic England Archive, BF029852 (Index). SDO14738.

Higher Farm, Margarer Marsh. File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate.

Record last edited

Apr 27 2022 1:01PM