Building record MDO45913 - North Farm, Winterborne Kingston

SY 86179786. North Farmhouse of two-storeys with walls of brick, flint and cob appears to be of mid 18th century origin although it was extensively altered and enlarged in the 19th century and again more recently. The heraldic glass of the Daccomb Family noted by Hutchins is now preserved at
'The Pines', Salisbury Road, Ringwood, Hants. (Not annotated on OS plans). <1>

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 301 (Monograph). SDO136.

'(3) North Farm (86179786), about 270 yds. N. of the church, is the house described by Hutchins (I, 145) as William Little's farm. It is of two storeys, with walls of brick, flint and cob, and with tiled roofs; it appears to be of mid 18th-century origin but it was extensively altered and enlarged in the 19th century and again more recently. The gabled E. wall of the 18th-century range is surmounted by two diagonal brick chimneystacks. Towards the E. end of the upper storey the N. wall has a timber window of four chamfered square-headed lights under a coved lintel; this is said to be the window in which the heraldic glass of the Daccomb family, described by Hutchins, was formerly set; the glass has now been removed (see below).

Inside, some rooms have exposed lightly chamfered beams. The stairs are probably of the late 18th century, with open strings, three turned balusters to each tread and a moulded handrail ending at the bottom in a horizontal volute.

The heraldic glass noted by Hutchins is now preserved at 'The Pines', Salisbury Road, Ringwood, Hampshire. There are four shields with strapwork surrounds. One shield has the arms of Twynihoe impaling Daccomb, the latter reversed; the second has Daccomb impaling two coats per fess (unidentified 17, 18); the third has quarterly Touchet, Willoughby?, Filiol or Parentyn and Martin, impaling Daccomb; the fourth has Daccomb paly with a blank coat. A lozenge-shaped quarry has the Daccomb griffin; another quarry is inscribed 1601. The impalements appear to record alliances of the Daccomb family in the late 16th or early 17th centuries; a Twynihoe-Daccomb marriage took place in 1631.'

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455804 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Mar 15 2023 3:49PM