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© Mr Harold T. F. Jenkins LRPS
IoE Number:
104647
Location:
HOLDITCH COURT, TOWER 50 METRES SOUTH OF HOLDITCH COURT FARMHOUSE, HOLDITCH COURT LANE
THORNCOMBE, WEST DORSET, DORSET
Photographer:
Mr Harold T. F. Jenkins LRPS
Date Photographed:
05 November 2001
Date listed:
04 December 1951
Date of last amendment:
04 December 1951
Grade
I
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ST 30 SW THORNCOMBE HOLDITCH COURT LANE
1/69 Holditch Court, Tower
50 metres South of
Holditch Court Farmhouse
4.12.51
GV I
Tower (remains of a fortified manor, R.C.H.M.). C15 Chert rubble walls with
stone string courses on commer stair-turret. Open masonry shell, with
projecting circular stair-turret at South-West angle, rising above the
present wall-heights. Many Putlog-holes showing on external faces. Line of
former spiral stair visible on inside face of turret. Scheduled Ancient
Monument. Source R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p. 247(5).