Listed Building record MDO43408 - Pelsham Farmhouse, Buckhorn Weston

A farmhouse built in the seventeenth century, though the rear wing appears to be an earlier build than the main range. The building has walls of ashlar and rubble and a slate roof with stone copings and brick chimney stacks. Surviving features of the interior are reported to include original collar beam trusses.

ST 74512355. Pelsham Farmhouse of two storeys with walls of ashlar and rubble is on an L-shaped plan; the principal range, on the north, being of the late 17th century. The south wing is perhaps of the first half of the same century. At the south end of the south range is a 19th century extension. <2>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1962 (Map). SWX1540.

(ST 745235) Pelsham Farm (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 8 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(3) Pelsham Farm (74512355), house, is two-storeyed and has walls of ashlar and of rubble, and slate-covered roofs. The plan is L-shaped and the principal range, on the N., is of the late 17th century; the S. wing is perhaps of the first half of the same century. The N. front is symmetrical and of five bays, with a central doorway and uniform casement windows, each of two square-headed lights with moulded architraves; the windows of the lower storey have plain aprons rising above offsets in the moulded plinth. A plat-band marks the level of the first floor. Inside, the N. range has a class-T plan, with the earlier S. range constituting a service wing. The roof has original collar-beam trusses. At the S. end of the S. range is a 19th-century extension.'

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 202490 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Feb 11 2022 5:06PM