WELL COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1119140
Date first listed:: 08-Oct-1986
List Entry Name:: WELL COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: WELL COTTAGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1119140
Date first listed:: 08-Oct-1986
List Entry Name:: WELL COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: WELL COTTAGE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: WELL COTTAGE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Longburton
National Grid Reference:: ST 64727 12962

Details

LONGBURTON ST 6412 LONGBURTON VILLAGE

10/96 Well Cottage

GV II

Detached cottage. C16 core, with later raising of eaves, and C19 and C20 refenestration. Rubble-stone walls. Thatch roof with gable-ends. Stone stack at left hand gable, and on ridge right of centre. 2 storeys. 4 windows, ground floor; 2-light, 2-light, 3-light (C20), 2-light, wood casements with glazing-bars. 3-light iron casements in wood frames over. Front door, left of centre, plank, C20. Interior: plank-and.-muntin screen with integral door head to south end room, C16. Straight-chamfered muntins with intact top and bottom rails. Fireplace in hall, at right-angles to front wall and abutting it: timber straight-chamfered jambs C16 and fitting timber depressed-arch head, C16. Dog-leg staircase with door, on rear wall opposite fireplace jamb. Fireplace on south end wall, with rubble-stone jambs and cambered wood lintel, C17 insertion. First floor large stack embrasures, staggered, on end wall, and at centre of house. Roof: jointed-cruck construction survives, with collars, with one face-peg, much strengthening with later timber and bolted. (RCHM. Dorset I, p.62(6))

Listing NGR: ST6472712962

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Legacy System number:: 106114
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Inventory of Dorset, (1952), 62(6)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.