A farmhouse built in the 16th century with later additions and alterations. The walls of the building are rubble with new brick facing work and brick and rubble buttresses, and it has a thatched roof with a brick chimney stack. One end of the building, and under the same roof, is a stable. It is a cross-passage house with a timber cruck roof. Other surviving features of the interior are reported to include plank-and-muntin partitions, chamfered beams, and a fireplace.
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Unpublished document: Bridge, M. 2014. Purcombe Farmhouse, Batts Lane, Marshwood, Dorset. Tree-Ring Analysis of Timbers.
<1> SDO97
Monograph: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England. 1952. An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West). 157.
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