Listed Building record MDO14364 - Wyke House, Castleton

Farmhouse with attached walls. Dated 1650 with lateseventeenth century addition on west in spandrels of front door. Dressed stone walls, rendered. Clay-tile roof with stone-slate eaves. Stone gable-copings and scrolled kneelers. Twentieth century brick stacks at gable ends. Front elevation: two storeys with attics.

Wyke Grange, a moated farmhouse which is said, probably with truth, to have been used by the Abbots of Sherborne as their summer residence. Over the main door is the date 1650, the year in which the building was restored or altered. <1> A house built in 1650 by Eliab Harvey, with rubble walls and slate roofs. It is surrounded by a moat that is partly revetted in stone. <3> There is no definite evidence the Wyke was a grange of Sherborne Abbey, but the occupier's contention that it incorporates work earlier than 1650 is well supported by the discovery of three stone fireplaces of the 16th or early 17th cent., and the existence of a Tudor type window and some Jacobean strapwork panelling. The moat is water-filled. Stone revetting formerly visible along its south arm has now fallen away. <4> "Wyke", (name confirmed by owner, Mr Loxton), a large farmhouse in good condition and as described above. Outstanding, in spite of a certain amount of renovation and rebuilt chimneys. Stone roof largely replaced with brick tiles. Surrounding the house are the waterfilled remains of a rectangular homestead moat. It measures, overall, 71.0m north east-south west by 66.0m transversely. The shallow-sided arms are from 5.0m in width on the north west side to 8.0m on the north east and south east sides. The south west arm from west of the house to the west corner and the north west arm of a causewayed entrance have lately been filled in and the ground is now occupied by gardens. 1:2500 MSD revised. <6>

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