1 to 4, Tregonwell Cottages and The Reading Room
1 to 4, Tregonwell Cottages, Milton Abbas, Blandford Forum, DT11 0BN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1118594
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- 1 to 4, Tregonwell Cottages and The Reading Room
- Statutory Address:
- 1 to 4, Tregonwell Cottages, Milton Abbas, Blandford Forum, DT11 0BN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1118594
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 1 to 4, Tregonwell Cottages and The Reading Room
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 to 4, Tregonwell Cottages, Milton Abbas, Blandford Forum, DT11 0BN
- Statutory Address 2:
- The Reading Room, Milton Abbas, Blandford Forum, DT11 0BN
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:
- 1 to 4, Tregonwell Cottages, Milton Abbas, Blandford Forum, DT11 0BN
- Statutory Address:
- The Reading Room, Milton Abbas, Blandford Forum, DT11 0BN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Milton Abbas
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 80625 01822
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 7 April 2026 to amend details in the description add source and reformat address
ST 8001
13/102
MILTON ABBAS (North west side)
Nos 1, 2 , 3 and 4 Tregonwell Cottages and the Reading Room
(Formerly listed as Nos 1, 2 , 3 and 4 Almshouses and the Reading Room)
14.7.55
GV
II*
Almshouse block. First built in the former town around 1647, re-erected on present site in 1779. Walls of brick and flint banding, with stone dressings; tiled roof with moulded coped gables and stone eaves courses. Four brick stacks along ridge, each with two square shafts set diagonally. Single-storey. Reading Room (now used as Village Hall), in centre, has gable end to road. In this, ground floor has three moulded stone arches with ornamented projecting keystones, on Tuscan columns - ledged door in centre arch - two-light windows with lead lights in outer arches. This feature framed by two composite columns supporting entablature and moulded cornice. Above this, in gable, three circular windows with moulded stone surrounds. Coat of Arms in centre with date stone - 1779 - below on each side of the Reading Room. The almshouse wings, each with two ledged doors in four-centred arched stone surrounds, and four stone mullioned windows with lead lights. Exposed ceiling beams in Reading Room.
RCHM Monument 8. (Dorset.Vol.III)
Listing NGR: ST8042701762
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103518
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970)
Websites
Tregonwell Almshouse Trust, accessed 1 April 2026 from https://www.tregonwellalmshousetrust.com/history
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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