Martyrs' Cottage
MARTYRS' COTTAGE, DORCHESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1119869
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Martyrs' Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- MARTYRS' COTTAGE, DORCHESTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1119869
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Martyrs' Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARTYRS' COTTAGE, DORCHESTER ROAD
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:
- MARTYRS' COTTAGE, 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 79493 94415
Details
TOLPUDDLE DORCHESTER ROAD SY 7994 (North SIde)
15/170 Martyrs' Cottage (formerly listed as 26.1.56 Martyrs' Cottages)
- I
Detached cottage, formerly 2 cottages. Probably C18. Walls part plastered cob, part brick, colourwashed. Double Roman tile roof with crested ridge. Brick end stacks. 2 storeys. One part-glazed oak door, and one stable door. Ground floor has 2 casements with glazing bars and one C20 casement. First floor has 2 sashes with vertical glazing bars, one casement with commemorating house as meeting place of the Tolpuddle Martyrs. At right end one C20 casement with glazing bars. At left end a single storey range with gabled roof and one C20 casement. It was the cottage of Thomas Standfield, one of the six agricultural workers who in 1834 were transported to the Australian convict settlements for taking an oath illegaly under the Mutiny Act of 1797 which had been designed to prevent mutinies in the navy. They were pardoned in 1837 and returned to England in 1838. The public outcry raised by the case was critical to the early strengthening of the Trade Union movement. Graded for its historical importance as the meeting place of the Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers. Source' The story of Tolpuddle Martyrs TUC Publications 1984.
Listing NGR: SY7949394415
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 106359
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Story of Tolpuddle Martyrs, (1984)
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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