Throop Cottage
THROOP COTTAGE, 3 AND 4, THROOP HOLLOW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120426
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Throop Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THROOP COTTAGE, 3 AND 4, THROOP HOLLOW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120426
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Throop Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THROOP COTTAGE, 3 AND 4, THROOP HOLLOW
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:
- THROOP COTTAGE, 3 AND 4, THROOP HOLLOW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Affpuddle and Turnerspuddle
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 82694 93101
Details
SY 89SW 2/254 TURNERSPUDDLE THROOP HOLLOW, THR00P (East Side)
Nos 3 and 4 (Throop Cottage)
II
Originally one house. Probably C17. Plastered cob walls, thatched roofs, brick stacks. Of three-room and cross-passage plan, No. 3 comprising the 'lower end' and cross-passage, and No. 4 the 'hall' and 'inner room'. One storey and attics. No. 3 has ledged door with glass panel in thatched timber porch. Ground floor has one casement window with cast iron lights. Attic has one dormer with casements. Single-storey wing at rear - probably originally a dairy or pantry - now a kitchen. Cob walls and thatched roof. Main ground floor room - original kitchen - has large open fireplace with oak lintel. Inserted bread oven on one side, curing chamber on other. Chamfered beams in ground floor ceilings. Garage building belonging to this house, at rear of Piper's Cottage (q.v.). Probably early C19 origin and appears to have been an open shelter shed. Brick and cob walls. One side originally open with brick piers, now infilled with concrete block. Thatched roof. Modern garage doors at south end. No. 4 has ledged door. Ground floor has one casement window with cast iron lights, and one later timber casement. Attic has one dormer wih casements. Rear wall buttressed. Fireplace in original hall, backing on to cross-passage, has one jamb of stone, corbelled out at top to carry lintel. Stairs west of stack, probably in original position, lit by small window. Chamfered beam in ground floor ceiling. Inner room unheated. Modern outbuildings in garden at rear. RCHM Monument 9. Note. The houses on the west side of Throop Hollow are in Affpuddle Parish.
Listing NGR: SY8269493101
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 108711
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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