Forge Cottage Spring Cottage Including Linked Barn to East
FORGE COTTAGE, DORCHESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119834
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Forge Cottage Spring Cottage Including Linked Barn to East
- Statutory Address:
- FORGE COTTAGE, DORCHESTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119834
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Forge Cottage Spring Cottage Including Linked Barn to East
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORGE COTTAGE, DORCHESTER ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- SPRING COTTAGE INCLUDING LINKED BARN TO EAST, DORCHESTER ROAD
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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:
- FORGE COTTAGE, DORCHESTER ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- SPRING COTTAGE INCLUDING LINKED BARN TO EAST, DORCHESTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Burleston and Tolpuddle
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 79332 94462
Details
TOLPUDDLE SY 7994 DORCHESTER ROAD (South Side)
15/179 Forge Cottage and Spring Cottage 26.1.56 including linked barn to east (formerly listed as 'Spring cottage')
GV II
Pair of semi-detached cottages, with linked barn. Early C17, altered. Forge Cottage, at left end, of 2 builds. Plastered walls, thatched roof to original (right) section, slate roof to later - probably C18, left section. One brick stack at east end, one at junction with Spring Cottage. Buttress at junction of 2 sections. Left section 2 storeyed. One sash with glazing bars on each floor. Right section of one storey and attic. Ground floor has one casement with glazing bars, and one window with bottom hung fanlight and vertical bars only. Attic has one dormer with centre horizontal bar. At left end, a single storey range links house to barn. Flush door in this. Barn has cob walls on brick base, and thatched roof hipped at left end. In thatched section of house, ground floor has large open fireplace with timber lintel and deep chamfered ceiling beam. Spring Cottage has walls part brick, part plastered cob. Thatched roof, hipped at right end. Door with glass panel. Ground floor has one casement with glazing bars. Attic has one half dormer with similar casement. At right end, a single storey brick lean-to with corrugated sheet roof. Interior not inspected, but according to RCHM this contains an original doorway with 4-centred head, and stop-chamfered ceiling beams. Roof of upper cruck construction. (RCHM Monument 4. Dorset Vol III)
Listing NGR: SY7933294462
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 106368
- 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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