Down End Cottage

Down End Cottage, 3, East Street, Corfe Castle, Wareham, BH20 5ED

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1120233
Date first listed:
20-Nov-1959
List Entry Name:
Down End Cottage
Statutory Address:
Down End Cottage, 3, East Street, Corfe Castle, Wareham, BH20 5ED
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1120233
Date first listed:
20-Nov-1959
List Entry Name:
Down End Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
Down End Cottage, 3, East Street, Corfe Castle, Wareham, BH20 5ED

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Down End Cottage, 3, East Street, Corfe Castle, Wareham, BH20 5ED

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

District:
Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Corfe Castle
National Grid Reference:
SY 96113 82200

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27 March 2026 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards

SY 96 82
7/15

CORFE CASTLE
EAST STREET (east side)
No. 3, Down End Cottage

(Formerly listed as No. 3 (The Manse))

20.11.59

GV
II
Semi-detached house. Probably late C18. Rubble stone walls, tiled roof with stone eaves courses, brick end stacks. Two storeys and attic. C20 battened door with small glass panels. Ground floor has two sashes with glazing bars, under timber lintols. First floor has three similar windows. Attic has two hipped dormers with similar sashes.

(RCHM, Monument 29. Dorset. Vol. II).

Listing NGR: SY9611382200

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109167
Legacy System:
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Sources

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Inventory of Dorset, (1970)

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

Ordnance survey map of Down End Cottage

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