Listed Building record MDO4284 - Great Down Barn, Marnhull

Great Down Barn. Coarsed rubble with gable-ended tiled roof, hipped porch to South West. <2>

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 159 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘Unless otherwise described the following monuments are two-storied and have walls of roughly coursed rubble, and tiled roofs; they are of the 18th century. … (60) Great Down Barn (78661987), ¾ m. N.N.E. of the parish church, has walls of coursed rubble and a tiled roof. A flush entrance is on the E. side and a transeptal egress bay is on the W. On each side of the transept the main roof sweeps down to cover lean-to sheds. Internally the walls are partly lined with elm boarding.’

<2> Department of the Environment, 1984, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Dorset (Parishes of East Orchard, East Stour, Fifehead Magdalen, Hinton St Mary, Manston, Margaret Marsh, Marnhull, Stour Provost, Todber, West Orchard & West Stour) (Scheduling record). SDO16450.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 888493 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Jan 4 2022 12:07PM