6 And 8, Market Street

These are two attached cottages, located on Market Street in Abbotsbury and dating to the early 19th century. The cottages have walls of coursed rubble stone, using a mix of ironstone and limestone, and are topped with a slate roof featuring gable ends. Tall 19th-century brick stacks are visible at each gable, with decorative cappings. The cottages are two storeys high. Each cottage has windows; No. 6 has a 3-light wooden casement with glazing bars and dressed stone voussoirs, while No. 8 has a 4-light wooden casement of similar construction. A plank door, with a keyed stone lintel (inserted in the 20th century), is positioned approximately at the centre of the range for No. 6. No. 8 has a studded door with ornamental strap hinges, also a 20th-century addition, at its left-hand end. These cottages were originally part of a range of six cottages situated south-east of the local school.