Chantry Cottage

Chantry Cottage is a detached former farmhouse, now a private house, positioned at right angles to the road. It dates from the late 16th century and has undergone a 20th-century conversion and refenestration throughout. The building features rubble-stone walls and a thatch roof with gable ends, along with brick stacks at the gable ends. It is 1½ storeys high and has three windows. The west elevation includes 20th-century single-pane windows to the right of the front door, which is a 20th-century panelled door with a 20th-century porch. There is a 5-light dormer window above and a pentice-roofed outshut to the left of the front door. The east elevation has stone mullioned windows, some from the 20th century and two 18th-century 2-light windows.

Inside, the north room features a straight-chamfered ceiling beam with stepped stops and a frame for a shouldered doorway from the 16th century. The central room has beams with a heavy flat chamfer and stepped stops, along with a large inserted and blocked fireplace and a central smoke bay. The roof consists of three jointed-cruck trusses with cambered collars and three trenched purlins to each principal. The central smoke bay is a very rare survival in Dorset.