Listed Building record MDO43294 - Round Chimneys Farmhouse, Glanvilles Wootton

A farmhouse built in the sixteenth century with seventeenth-century additions, formerly a manor house of the Earls of Salisbury and later of the Churchill Family. Partly demolished in the 19th century.

Round Chimneys Farmhouse, a 2-storey rubble walled house with ashlar dressing, partly rendered, with stone mullioned windows. The east wing is 16th century and the west wing probably 17th century. According to Hutchins there was formerly a gabled and dormer-windowed third storey. A chimney had a date-stone which Hutchins records as being 159-, the fourth figure being defaced. The house, now a farm, was a manor house of the Earls of Salisbury and Huntingdon and later of the Churchill family. <1, 5, 6>

'Round Chimneys Farm', name confirmed by owner, a large farmhouse in fair condition. As described above, with fair round stone chimney stacks, one lately rebuilt. No datestone could be detected from ground level. Several mullioned windows in the east end are blocked up and the stone roofs have largely been replaced with grey slates. Not particularly outstanding for the area. <7>

<1> Hutchins, J, 1868, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. Volume 3. 3rd edition, 744-5 (Monograph). SDO11486.

<2> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1900, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club for 1900, 218-22 (Serial). SDO14.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1923-33, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch three, Dorset Sheet XII.SE, Revised 1927, Published 1930 (Map). SDO11595.

Round Chimneys Farm (NAT)

<4> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey map 6 inches to 1 mile, 1962 (Map). SDO17337.

Round Chimneys Farm (NR)

<5> DOE (HHR), 1951, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Sturminster RD, 34 (Scheduling record). SDO17410.

<6> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 97-8 (Monograph). SDO146.

<7> Phillips, A S, Various, Field Investigators Comments ASP, F1 ASP 21-OCT-77 (Unpublished document). SWX3817.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 198760 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Dec 23 2021 10:15AM