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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