Briantspuddle Cruck Cottage
BRIANTSPUDDLE CRUCK COTTAGE, 31, BRIANTSPUDDLE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120509
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Briantspuddle Cruck Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BRIANTSPUDDLE CRUCK COTTAGE, 31, BRIANTSPUDDLE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120509
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Briantspuddle Cruck Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIANTSPUDDLE CRUCK COTTAGE, 31, BRIANTSPUDDLE
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:
- BRIANTSPUDDLE CRUCK COTTAGE, 31, BRIANTSPUDDLE
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 81932 93216
Details
SY 8192, SY 8193, SY 8293, SY 8292 12/41 AFFPUDDLE BRIANTSPUDDLE 20.11.59 (North Side)
No. 31 Briantspuddle Cruck Cottage. (Formerly listed as Nos 31 and 32)
II
Cottage. Late C15 origin, extended C17. Orginally of open hall form with cruck trusses. Plastered cob walls on brick and stone base. Thatched roof. Brick stacks - one rendered. One storey and attics. Front wall buttressed. Modern ledged door under pentice with stone slate roof. Ground floor has four casement windows with glazing bars. Attic has three dormers with casements with glazing bars. Internally, the house was originally open to the roof, three bays long, with true cruck trusses, parts of which survive. An intermediate floor was inserted in the late C16. The western room has deep chamfered ceiling beams and a chimney stack of this date. The eastern room and end chimney stack were added in the late C17. Traces of a bread oven or curing chamber adjoin this stack. Both stacks have large open fireplaces - now partly built up - with oak lintels. RCHM Monument 4.
Listing NGR: SY8193293216
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 108499
- 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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