Glebe Cottage And Attached Walls

SY 78 SW OSMINGTON RINGSTEAD

9/33 Glebe Cottage and attached walls 26.1.56 - II*

Former Ringstead Old Church, converted to cottage. C13 fabric with C18 conversion to domestic use, and C20 re-roofing, window and door alterations. Rubblestone walls. Clay tile roofs with gable ends. Brick stack at right hand gable. 1½ storeys. 2 windows, 2 light wood casements with glazing-bars. Wood cills. 3 light casement in C20 extension at west end. Half dormers are gabled 2 light casements. Doors, plank door, right of centre to C20 rubblestone porch. C20 door, left of centre, with stone seat externally beside entrance. The chancel has a wide plinth, the line of the original east gable is visible below the present roof line. There was no east window. Interior: the pointed chancel arch, visible upstairs is of two chamfered orders. It is largely blocked but survives to its full height. Nothing remains of the original nave. C18 alterations, floor inserted in the chancel, supported by a roughly chamfered ceiling beam. Fireplace at the east end has a chamfered bressummer and a bread oven at the north side, brick jambs and rear of fireplace. log- leg wooden staircase with door in beside the fireplace. Attached walls of former churchyard, coursed rubblestone walls, forming a loose rectangle and running 30 metres north to south, and 17 metres east to west. (R.C.H.M. Dorset II, p. 180 (2)).

Listing NGR: SY7473181764