HOLDITCH COURT FARMHOUSE

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Holditch Court Farmhouse was built as a gatehouse circa 1500 and extended in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is now a two storey, rubble-built house. South east of the house are the remains of a tower, formerly part of a 15th century fortified house, now a roofless shell.

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(ST 34490219) Holditch Court (NR)

(ST 34480215) Tower (NR) (1)

Holditch Court, built as a gate-house early in the 16th century and extended in the 17th century, is a two-storeyed, rubble and flint house with tiled roofs. It retains two of the original windows, and inside is an original doorway. The tower, situated south-east of the house, formed part of a semi-fortified manor house of late medieval date, and traces of a rectangular stone building can be seen 16 yards to the south-east. Immediately to the south are traces of a bank and scarp and of another bank, which may represent a defensive enclosure. The remains of a fishpond can be seen north-east of the house. (2-3)

The fishpond to the east of the house is now used as a duck-pond. The tower is in a ruinous state (see photograph) and the remains of the stone building 16 yards south-east of it have been obliterated. The banks and scarps to the south have been partly demolished and form no coherent pattern. (4)

Holditch Court. The tower is Grade I.

Holditch Court. The tower, of C15th date is listed Grade I.

Holditch Court Farmhouse, is circa 1500 with major C17th alterations and listed Grade II. (5-6)

Listed as a strong house by Cathcart King. (7)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

0S 6" 1963

( 2) Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, England 1952 An inventory of the historical monuments in Dorset. Vol. I : west

Page(s)247

( 3) List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest

D0E (HHR) Beaminster RD 1950 38

( 4) Field Investigators Comments

F1 GCS 02-MAR-55

( 5) List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest

DOE (HHR) West Dorset District. Apr-1983 44

( 6) by John Newman and Nikolaus Pevsner 1972 Dorset

The buildings of England Page(s)421

(7) by David J Cathcart King 1983 Castellarium anglicanum : an index and bibliography of the castles in England, Wales and the islands. Volume I : Anglesey - Montgomery

Page(s)130

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