Old Shepherd's Cottage
OLD SHEPHERD'S COTTAGE, MAIN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262104
- Date first listed:
- 27-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Old Shepherd's Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- OLD SHEPHERD'S COTTAGE, MAIN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262104
- Date first listed:
- 27-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Old Shepherd's Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD SHEPHERD'S COTTAGE, MAIN 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:
- OLD SHEPHERD'S COTTAGE, MAIN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Winterborne St. Martin
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 65222 88795
Details
SY 68 NE WINTERBORNE ST MARTIN MAIN ROAD (south side) 5/133 Old Shepherd's Cottage
- II
Formerly two cottages, now one. Later C17 extended south with hip, with exten- sive refenestration and modernisation. Rubble stone walls and dressed stone walls, colourwashed. Thatch roof, hipped at south end and gabled at north end. Rebuilt brick stacks on south hip apex and on north gable end. 1½ storeys. 4 windows, irregular fenestration, mainly 2 light C20 wood casements with glazing bars, wood cills. Eyebrow dormers, are 2 light wood casements with glazing bars. Front door, C20 plank with one glazed light. C20 porch. Rear elevation irregular fenestration of 5 windows, same types, and 2 eyebrow dormers over. Interior: open fireplaces in north end room, C18 brick jambs with bread oven in right jamb, and taking out hole. Segmental chamfered wood lintel. Open fireplace in south end, brick jambs rendered and wood lintel chamfered. Bread oven in right jamb. Ceiling beams straight chamfered. (R.C.H.M. Dorset II, p.393(9).)
Listing NGR: SY6522288795
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 435915
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 393
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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