Listed Building record MDO43255 - Newlands Farmhouse, Batcombe

A farmhouse built in the early 19th century. The villa-design building has brick walls covered in render and hipped slate roofs with brick chimney stacks. Seventeenth-century material re-used in the house includes oak panelling, and it is thought to be on the site of or possibly incorporate part of a 17th-century manor house. There is a stone archway dated 1622 outside.

Newland's Farm, originally a manor house now a farm and tithing, belonged to the Minterne family in Elizabethan times. House mainly 19th century with re-used 17th century material including oak panelling. Outside is a stone archway dated 1622. <1> <4>

The sole surviving part of the former building is the stone archway (at ST 61730507) with the date 1622. <5>

No change since report of 29 9 55. <6>

<1> Shipp, W, and Hodson, J W (eds), 1870, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. 3rd edition. Volume 4, 422 (Monograph). SDO17392.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1900, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch two (Map). SDO11594.

(ST 61750509) Newland's Farm on site of (NAT) Manor House (NR)

<3> DOE (HHR), 1950, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Sherborne Rural District 1950, 2.20.6 (Scheduling record). SDO17394.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 17 (Monograph). SDO97.

<5> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, 29-SEP-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<6> Phillips, A S, Various, Field Investigators Comments ASP, F1 ASP 27-OCT-77 (Unpublished document). SWX3817.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 198827 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 23 2021 10:15AM