The Old Cottage
THE OLD COTTAGE, HIGHER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324637
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD COTTAGE, HIGHER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324637
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD COTTAGE, HIGHER STREET
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:
- THE OLD COTTAGE, HIGHER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Iwerne Minster
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 86570 14507
Details
ST 8614 IWERNE MINSTER HIGHER STREET
10/135 The Old Cottage GV II
House, early C16 or earlier. Hall floored, probably C17 and various alterations of the C18, C19 and C20. Walls of flint, rubble and brickwork of a variety of builds with rubble dressings. Half-hipped, thatched roof with brick stacks to gable-ends and part way along the ridge. One and a half storeys, irregular fenestration (3 gabled dormers). Windows are mainly 3-light wrought-iron casements with leaded-lights in timber frames. Central, part-glazed, panelled door under open, half-hipped, tiled porch. Early insurance company plaque on front wall.
Internally the ceilings have deep stop-chamfered beams and the open fireplaces have deep chamfered timber bressummers. The front door leads onto a cross-passage. The roof is supported on 4 true cruck trusses with extensive smoke blackening. The purlins are wind-braced. The central cruck has a chamfered arch braced collar, the chamfer taken to a point through an ogee curve. The adjacent windbraces are also chamfered. This suggests the house originally had a two bay hall open to the roof with an open hearth. The roof retains its original smoke-blackened wattle lining under the thatch. The position of the C17 fireplaces suggests that the house was converted into a pair of cottages after being ceiled. (RCHM, Dorset, vol. IV, p. 40, no. 13).
Listing NGR: ST8657014507
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103225
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Royal Commission on Historic Monuments; Inventory of Dorset Vol 4, (1972), 40
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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