Chantry Cottage
CHANTRY COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1154108
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Chantry Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CHANTRY COTTAGE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1154108
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Chantry Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHANTRY COTTAGE
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:
- CHANTRY COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- North Wootton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 65734 14385
Details
NORTH WOOTTON ST 61 SE - 10/78 Chantry Cottage GV II
Detached former farmhouse, now private house, at right angles to road. Late C16, with C20 conversion and refenestration throughout. Rubble- stone walls. Thatch roof with gable ends. Brick stacks at gable-ends. 1½ storeys. 3 windows. West elevation has C20 windows single pane to right of front door. 5-light dormer window over. Pentice-roofed outshut to left of front door. Front door, panelled, C20. C20 porch. East elevation has stone mullioned windows, C20 and two C18 2-light windows. Interior: north room has straight-chamfered ceiling-beam with stepped stops. Frame for a shouldered doorway, C16. Central room beams with heavy flat chamfer and stepped stops. Large inserted, and blocked fire- place. Central smoke bay. Roof: 3 jointed-cruck trusses with cambered collars. 3 trenched purlins to each principal. The central smoke-bay is a very rare survival in Dorset. (RCHM, Dorset I, p 268(2). R Machin, Notes on Chantry Cottage, North Wootton).
Listing NGR: ST6573414385
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105620
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 268
Other
Machin, R , Notes on Chantry Cottage North Wootton,
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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