Forge Cottage Spring Cottage Including Linked Barn To East

TOLPUDDLE SY 7994 DORCHESTER ROAD (South Side)

15/179 Forge Cottage and Spring Cottage 26.1.56 including linked barn to east (formerly listed as 'Spring cottage')

GV II

Pair of semi-detached cottages, with linked barn. Early C17, altered. Forge Cottage, at left end, of 2 builds. Plastered walls, thatched roof to original (right) section, slate roof to later - probably C18, left section. One brick stack at east end, one at junction with Spring Cottage. Buttress at junction of 2 sections. Left section 2 storeyed. One sash with glazing bars on each floor. Right section of one storey and attic. Ground floor has one casement with glazing bars, and one window with bottom hung fanlight and vertical bars only. Attic has one dormer with centre horizontal bar. At left end, a single storey range links house to barn. Flush door in this. Barn has cob walls on brick base, and thatched roof hipped at left end. In thatched section of house, ground floor has large open fireplace with timber lintel and deep chamfered ceiling beam. Spring Cottage has walls part brick, part plastered cob. Thatched roof, hipped at right end. Door with glass panel. Ground floor has one casement with glazing bars. Attic has one half dormer with similar casement. At right end, a single storey brick lean-to with corrugated sheet roof. Interior not inspected, but according to RCHM this contains an original doorway with 4-centred head, and stop-chamfered ceiling beams. Roof of upper cruck construction. (RCHM Monument 4. Dorset Vol III)

Listing NGR: SY7933294462