Bridge Cottage
BRIDGE COTTAGE, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118548
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDGE COTTAGE, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118548
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDGE COTTAGE, THE STREET
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:
- BRIDGE COTTAGE, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Winterborne Zelston
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 89878 97636
Details
WINTERBORNE ZELSTON STREET (East side) SY 8997 THE STREET (East side)
16/190 Bridge Cottage
GV II
Detached house, probably once 3 cottages. C17, with C18 rear wing. Plastered cob walls, hipped thatched roof, one brick stack at left end, one right of centre. One storey and attic. At left end, former cart shed, with ledged door. At right end a later outbuilding, now incorporated in house. Added rear wing, single-storey, with tiled roof. Brick buttress to front wall. C20 oak door in open thatched porch. Ground floor has 7 casement windows with cast iron lights, some in former door openings. Attic has six ½-dormers, 4 with cast iron lights, one with lead lights and one with timber glazing bars.
Internally, left end ground floor room has large open fireplace with timber lintel and bread oven. Some chamfered ceiling beams. Centre room has similar fireplace, with curing chamber at high level. Some chamfered ceiling beams. First floor over front of this room removed to form gallery, with roughly shaped splat balusters. Roughly shaped balusters to landing at top of stairs. Most original roof trusses survive. (RCHM Monument 7. Dorset. Vol.III).
Listing NGR: SY8987897636
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103606
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970)
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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