The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1951. House.

The Cottage

WRENN ID
watchful-pillar-gold
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Country
England
Date first listed
11 July 1951
Type
House
Source
Historic England listing

Description

THORNFORD LONGFORD ROAD (east side) ST 6012 The Cottage (formerly 17/145 listed as Thornford 11.7.51 Cottage) GV II

Former farmhouse, now private house. Late C17, with gabled datestone I.M. 1785 (possible date of repair). Coursed rubble-stone walls, with Ham stone dressings. Thatch roof, hipped at left hand and gabled at right hand, with a stone gable-coping. Brick stack at ridge centre. Stone stack and cornice at right hand gable. Two storeys. 3 windows, hollow-chamfered stone mullions of 3 and 4 lights, hollow-chamfered stone mullions with separate labels, returned, over ground floor windows. Iron casements with lead lights. Front doorway, right of centre, with straight-chamfered jambs and depressed-arch head. Separate label over, C17. Plank-and-muntin door, C20. Interior: open fireplace backs onto cross-passage, fireplace has stone jambs and a cambered straight-chamfered wood lintel. Bread oven. Right end room also has an open fireplace, straight-chamfered jambs and depressed-arch head, C17. Mid-chamfered ceiling-beams with stepped stops. (RCHM, Dorset I, p 250(8)).

Listing NGR: ST6031512956

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