More information : (SY 93088153) Barnston Farm on remains of (NAT) Manor
House (NR) (1)
Barnston farm, anciently a manor, derives its name from Bern, who
held it in the time of Edward the Confessor. The present house,
probably built by the Estoke family, is late 13th century, and the
solar block and west wing are of this date. The house originally
formed the north boundary of a large courtyard with a gatehouse
in the south-east corner, the remains of which were demolished in
the 19th century.
Extensive alterations were made to the house in the 16th century,
including the addition of a new ceilinged hall. Since then it has
undergone only essential reconstruction and repair. (2-4)
SY 9381 CHURCH KNOWLE BARNSTON
12/24 Barnston Manor, including attached farm
building on south-east
20/11/59
GV I
Manor House. C13 origin, altered in C16. Rubble stone walls, the
front wall part refaced in ashlar in C16. Stone slate roofs with
coped gables, stone stacks with moulded caps. Plan now consists
of hall with cross-wing at west end, - this last has a further
extension to the west at right angles. Remains of screens passage
at east end of hall, but no surviving evidence of pantry/buttery.
Cross-wing and its west wing C13, altered in C16. Hall dated C13
in RCHM survey, but no surviving features of this period and
according to Machin (see below) this probably a C16 addition to a
C13 first-floor hall-house, the west wing being its original solar.
2 storeys. West wing has 3 blocked C13 lancet windows and 2 inserted
C16 4-light stone mullioned windows. Cross-wing has a 2-storey
canted bay window, 6-lights wide, with stone mullions and transomes,
hipped stone slate roof, and moulded string courses. Hall has large
projecting chimney stack. West of this, on ground floor, a 4-light
stone mullioned window with hoodmould and, on first floor, a 2-light
stone mullioned window. East of the stack, the original door to
screens passage. part built up, with inserted mullioned window.
All windows with lead lights. A 2-light C13 window, originally
shuttered, in rear gable wall of cross-wing. Internally, the hall
has C16 moulded intersecting ceiling beams - one with mortices for
original screen. C16 stone fireplace with moulded surround. Corbel
in west wall probably suporting former stair to upper floor of
cross-wing. Stone spiral stair at rear of cross-wing. C16 stone
arched fireplaces on both floors of cross-wing.
RCHM Monument 2 (Dorset Vol II). See also R Machin "Barnston Manor,
Dorset and Aydon Castle, Northumberland: A Re-assessment of two
late 13th century houses." Archaeological Journal Vol 134. Royal
Archaeological Institute. (5)
The house, as described, is now a private dwelling known as Barneston
Manor. The stone outbuildings are also part of the property but the
adjacent modern farmbuildings are owned by a local farmer.
Published 1:2500 survey correct. (6)
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