Chescombe Cottage
CHESCOMBE COTTAGE, 10, BACK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323857
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Chescombe Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CHESCOMBE COTTAGE, 10, BACK LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323857
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Chescombe Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHESCOMBE COTTAGE, 10, BACK LANE
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:
- CHESCOMBE COTTAGE, 10, BACK LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cerne Abbas
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 66521 01057
Details
The following shall be added to the list:-
ST 6601 CERNE ABBAS BACK LANE 11/206 No. 10 (Chescombe Cottage)
II
House. Circa early C17, extended in C18 and C19. Plastered cob. Thatched roof, gabled at right hand end and hipped over lower roofed extension at left end. Axial stack to left of centre and lateral stack at rear of right hand end,both with rebuilt brick shafts. Plan and development :- Long 4-room plan range with an axial stack with back-to -back fireplaces between the two centre rooms. The original house is the 2-room plan section on the right(west), the hall/kitchen on the left heated from a gable end(now axial) stack and with a small unheated room on the right. It was probably in the C18 that a 1-room plan extension was built with a stack backing onto the stack of the original range. In the C19 a further 1-room plan extension was built at the left(east) end and the whole range was converted into 2 2-room cottages; reunited into 1 house in C20. Exterior:- 2 storeys. Assymmetrical 4/5 window range. C20 2-light casements with horizontal glazing bars. C19 and C20 plank doors to left and right. At rear C20 2-light casements with glazing bars. Interior:- Centre right hand room has chamfered cross-beam with ogee stops, large fireplace with roughly chamfered lintel and C19 winder staircase in corner. Centre left hand room has boxed-in unchamfered cross-beam and brick fireplace with roughly chamfered lintel. The roof has been largely replaced in C20 but two trusses at right hand(west) end survive; the right hand with collar morticed and tenoned into straight principals, the left hand truss has collar lapped and pegged to face of straight principals and both have trenched purlins.
Listing NGR: ST6652101057
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105538
- 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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