Westwood Cottage

Westwood Cottage, Quarr, Gillingham, Gillingham, SP8 5PA

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Overview

House, built around 1800. The single-storey C19 and C20 additions to the north, east and west, and the C20 glazed porch to the south, are not included. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1447498
Date first listed:: 24-Jul-2017
List Entry Name:: Westwood Cottage
Statutory Address:: Westwood Cottage, Quarr, Gillingham, Gillingham, SP8 5PA

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1447498
Date first listed:: 24-Jul-2017
List Entry Name:: Westwood Cottage
Statutory Address 1:: Westwood Cottage, Quarr, Gillingham, Gillingham, SP8 5PA

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Westwood Cottage, Quarr, Gillingham, Gillingham, SP8 5PA

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Buckhorn Weston
National Grid Reference:: ST7651126086

Summary

House, built around 1800. The single-storey C19 and C20 additions to the north, east and west, and the C20 glazed porch to the south, are not included.

Reasons for Designation

Westwood Cottage, Buckhorn Weston, Dorset is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

Architectural interest * It is a dwelling which dates from around 1800 that retains a significant amount of original building fabric; * The historic single-cell plan remains clearly legible; * It is characteristic of the local vernacular building tradition with the use of rubble-stone walls and thatch.

Historic interest * It is illustrative of a modest dwelling, a building type that would have once been commonplace.

History

Westwood Cottage was built around 1800 and was possibly an agricultural worker's dwelling. It stands within a small hamlet on the edge of the parish of Buckhorn Weston. The building is shown on the 1840 Buckhorn Weston Tithe Map. The 1st Edition Ordnance Survey Map suggests that the cottage was in the same parcel of land as Quarr Farm. The building was extended to the west in the late C19, with further single-storey lean-tos added to the north and east in the mid-C20.

Details

House, built around 1800. The single-storey C19 and C20 additions to the north, east and west, and the C20 glazed porch to the south are not included.

MATERIALS: random stone-rubble walls and a thatched roof.

PLAN: a single-cell dwelling.

EXTERIOR: a one-and-a-half storey, two-bay house. It is topped by a half-hipped, thatched roof with a brick stack rising from the east end. The front elevation consists of a mid-C20 glazed entrance door to the left. To the right is a ground and first-floor two-light, timber-frame window with horizontal glazing bars. There is a 15-pane metal-frame window in the upper storey at the east end.

INTERIOR: the front door opens into a room with a fireplace and winder staircase at the east end. The timber stairs replace an earlier set and the fireplace was reopened in the mid-C20. There are exposed ceiling joists of various dates. A door in the west end leads through to the attached lean-to. The first floor has large timber floor boards, and a stepped chimney breast is visible at the east end. The A-frame roof has an exposed central truss and a single row of purlins.

Sources

Books and journals
Historical Mounuments in the County of Dorset: Volume IV, (1972), 8
Other
Buckhorn Weston Tithe Map and Apportionment (1848)
Notes for Lesser Secular Monuments Item No 5: Westwood Cottage, Buckhorn Weston; Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England County of Dorset Vol. 4 North; found in Historic England Archive

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

The listed building(s) is/are shown coloured blue on the attached map. Pursuant to s.1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’), structures attached to or within the curtilage of the listed building (save those coloured blue on the map) are not to be treated as part of the listed building for the purposes of the Act.