Listed Building record MDO8856 - Tomson Farm House, Winterborne Tomson, Anderson

A detached farmhouse built in the early seventeenth century, with a nineteenth-century addition at the back. The building has walls of stone rubble and a tiled roof.

SY 88569740. Tomson Farm is an early 17th century house of two-storeys and attics with coursed-rubble walls and squared-rubble dressings with some brickwork in the upper parts. Hutchins <1> interpreted foundations to the west as evidence that the house was originally longer, having had a symmetrical plan centred on the stair tower, but this is doubtful. A range of buildings running north from the east end of the house is partly 19th century but towards the north it incorporates a single-storeyed cottage of probable 17th century origin. At the north end of the range is an extension, perhaps of the 18th century, incorporating heavy timber-frame construction, probably re-used. A stone-rubble built barn, 50 yds west of the house was partly rebuilt in the 19th century but to the south are two original bays of the early 17th century. A projecting two-storeyed wing to the west has a pigeon-cote in the upper storey. <3>

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Mar 14 2023 3:58PM