Little Thatch Cottage
LITTLE THATCH COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390871
- Date first listed:
- 25-May-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Little Thatch Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- LITTLE THATCH COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390871
- Date first listed:
- 25-May-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Little Thatch Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- LITTLE THATCH COTTAGE
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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:
- LITTLE THATCH COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bradford Abbas
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 58640 14183
Details
BRADFORD ABBAS
1611/0/10008 Little Thatch Cottage 25-MAY-04
GV II House. Circa late C18; altered C19 and extended late C20. Rendered stone rubble. Thatched roof with gabled and half-hipped ends. Gable-end stack with short brick shaft. PLAN: 1-room tapered plan, narrower at the left [south] end and with fireplace at the right [north] end; probably originally open to the roof and heated by an open hearth fire; first floor and partitions inserted in the C19 to create a pair of cottages, but now re-united into one house. C20 single-storey extensions at rear and at left [south] end. EXTERIOR: 1 storey and attic. Asymmetrical 3-bay east front; ground floor C20 3-light casement on left, 12-pane sash on right and central doorway with early C20 panelled and glazed door in later porch with thatched roof; two small attic casements, 1-light on left and 2-light on right; raking buttress on right of front. C20 flat roof extensions at left [south] end and at rear [west]. INTERIOR: Ground floor has large stone rubble fireplace at north end with big chamfered cambered timber bressumer and pole beams supporting first floor. Attic chambers ceiled, but purlins exposed. Simple pole-rafter roof structure completely smoke-blackened, including the underside of the thatch, the battens and thatching ties. This would seem to be a very rare, late example of a small house originally built open to the roof and heated by an open hearth fire. Alternatively, the smoke-blackening of the roof structure might indicate that some kind of process was once carried out in the building, sooting the roof timbers and that it was later converted into a dwelling.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 491637
- 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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