Listed Building: WELL COTTAGE (106114)

LONGBURTON ST 6412 LONGBURTON VILLAGE 10/96 Well Cottage GV II Detached cottage. C16 core, with later raising of eaves, and C19 and C20 refenestration. Rubble-stone walls. Thatch roof with gable-ends. Stone stack at left hand gable, and on ridge right of centre. 2 storeys. 4 windows, ground floor; 2-light, 2-light, 3-light (C20), 2-light, wood casements with glazing-bars. 3-light iron casements in wood frames over. Front door, left of centre, plank, C20. Interior: plank-and.-muntin screen with integral door head to south end room, C16. Straight-chamfered muntins with intact top and bottom rails. Fireplace in hall, at right-angles to front wall and abutting it: timber straight-chamfered jambs C16 and fitting timber depressed-arch head, C16. Dog-leg staircase with door, on rear wall opposite fireplace jamb. Fireplace on south end wall, with rubble-stone jambs and cambered wood lintel, C17 insertion. First floor large stack embrasures, staggered, on end wall, and at centre of house. Roof: jointed-cruck construction survives, with collars, with one face-peg, much strengthening with later timber and bolted. (RCHM. Dorset I, p.62(6)) Listing NGR: ST6472712962

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