Gable Cottage
Gable Cottage, West Street, Fontmell Magna, Shaftesbury, SP7 0PF
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110253
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Gable Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- Gable Cottage, West Street, Fontmell Magna, Shaftesbury, SP7 0PF
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110253
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Gable Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- Gable Cottage, West Street, Fontmell Magna, Shaftesbury, SP7 0PF
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Gable Cottage, West Street, Fontmell Magna, Shaftesbury, SP7 0PF
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Fontmell Magna
- National Grid Reference:
- ST8658416884
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 8 January 2026 to update the Name and Address and reformat the text to current standards
ST 8616
8/77
FONTMELL MAGNA
WEST STREET (south side)
Gable Cottage
(Formerly listed as Christmas Cottage, previously listed as Gable Cottage, previously listed under FONTWELL MAGNA)
16-8-60
GV
II
Cottage, C15 with alterations of C17, C18 and C20. Timber frame and rubble with half-hipped thatched roof. Brick stack to right of centre. Single storey with attic, four window range. C20 two- and three-light casements with glazing-bars. Glazed doors to end bay right and second bay left. Main front door in C20 outshut left. Single dormer window in roof.
Internal features (RCHM): House was originally of three bays and supported on two cruck trusses. These have cambered collars, that to the east retaining arch braces. East bay of the original house retains c 1600 floor resting on stop-chamfered beams.
Listing NGR: ST8658416884
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103165
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Royal Commission on Historic Monuments; Inventory of Dorset Vol 4, (1972), 24
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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