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Name:Holditch Court Tower, Holditch Court Lane, Thorncombe
Type of Record:Monument
HER Number:MDO2676
Last edited:Apr 4 2022 3:15PM

Location:Thorncombe; Dorset
Grid Reference:ST 344 021
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Monument Type(s):


Summary

Tower, the remains of a fifteenth century fortified manor, with chert rubble walls with stone string courses on corner stair-turret.

Protected Status

  • Scheduled Monument 1002835: Holditch Court Tower
  • Listed Building (I) 1118927: HOLDITCH COURT, TOWER 50 METRES SOUTH OF HOLDITCH COURT FARMHOUSE

Sources and Further Reading

<1>SDO17358 - Scheduling record: DOE (HRR). 1950. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Beaminster Rural District 1950. 38.
<2>SDO97 - Monograph: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England. 1952. An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West). 247.
<3>SWX1169 - Unpublished document: Swatridge, G C. Various. Field Investigators Comments GCS. F1 GCS 02-MAR-55.
<4>SWX1540 - Map: Ordnance Survey. Ordnance Survey Map 6in. 6 inch to 1 mile. 1963.
<5>SWX1290 - Monograph: Newman, J, and Pevsner, N. 1972. The Buildings of England: Dorset. 421.
<6>SDO16340 - Monograph: Cathcart-King, D J. 1983. Castellarium anglicanum: an index and bibliography of the castles in England, Wales and the islands. 1. 130.
<7>SDO16425 - Scheduling record: Department of the Environment. 1983. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Dorset (Parishes of Bettiscombe, Marshwood and Thorncombe). 44.
<8>SDO16404 - Unpublished document: Blatchford, C. 2018. Land at Holditch Court Farm North, Holditch, Nr Chard, Dorset. Archaeological Monitoring and Recording..
<9>SDO16404 - Unpublished document: Blatchford, C. 2018. Land at Holditch Court Farm North, Holditch, Nr Chard, Dorset. Archaeological Monitoring and Recording..
<10>SDO14739 - Digital archive: National Record of the Historic Environment. 191525.

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