The Old Cottage

DORCHESTER ROTTEN ROW SU5794 (West side) 5/123 No.13 (The Old Cottage) 18/07/63 (Formerly listed as The Old Cottage, High Street)

GV II

House. C15, altered and extended late C16, refronted late C18/early C19. Timber framing with brick infill and brick; old plain-tile roof with brick ridge stacks. 3-bay hall house with storeyed ends, extended to rear. 2 storeys. 2-window brick front, in Flemish bond, has 4-panelled door with canopy on shaped brackets, to left of centre, between segmental-arched 3-light casements, and has 2 similar casements at first floor. To extreme right is a passage entry. Rear wall is timber framed. C16 timber-framed 2-bay rear wing returns to left with a timber-framed stair tower in the angle. A lower timber-framed outbuilding, beyond, is now incorporated into the house. Interior: Left bay retains medieval first floor with internal jetty over fragments of original stud partition, plus bolection fireplace and oak panelling of c.1600; centre and right bays have inserted C16 floor with chamfered-and-stopped joists and intersecting beams. Roof has clasped purlins, lower king-strut trusses and heavy curved windbraces. Rear wing has a central open fireplace with chamfered bressumer and ashlar jambs, heavy joists, and a queen-strut roof with curved windbraces. Passage has brick inscribed "IB 1798" in a blocked doorway.

Listing NGR: SU5782294131