Listed Building: THE NEW INN (105429)

ST 6601 CERNE ABBAS LONG STREET. (south side) 11/98 The New Inn 26.1.56 GV II* Detached Coaching-Inn with carriage entrance. Late Cl7. with some late C18. and C20 refellestration. Rubble-stone plinth. Banded knapped flint. Ham stone and chalk-block walls. Late C18 brickwork in Flemish bond patching the upper storey. Stone slate roof, with gable-ends and stone gable-copings. Brick stacks at gable-ends, renewed late C19. Two storeys. 7 windows. regularly spaced. Ground floor: sash (16 pane) in Cl7 opening, sash (same), two 2-light hollow-chamfered stone mullions, with C20 metal casements with glazing-bars inserted in original openings (harmonise well); carriage entrance with stone jambs, depressed-arch with gauged brickwork and dropped stone key, painted white, altered in the C19; two 16-pane sashes. All ground floor windows have separate labels over. First floor windows: 2-light hollow-chamfered stone mullions with iron casements and leaded lights. No labels. All original openings. Door into bar, inside carriage-entrance on left. Interior: moulded ceiling-beams and stone fireplace in east end wall. (RCHM Dorset I, p81(16)) Listing NGR: ST6650401116

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Jan 31 2019 12:15PM