Listed Building: DEUTZIA COTTAGE (467761)

WEYMOUTH SY6682NW NOTTINGTON LANE, Nottington 873-1/10/456 (East side) 12/12/53 Deutzia Cottage (Formerly Listed as: NOTTINGTON LANE, Nottington Nos.2 AND 4 Hill Cottages) II Detached house, formerly 2 cottages, but possibly built as one. Dated 1676, but extended and refenestrated to the rear in late C18 or early C19. Small-scale coursed rubble, slate roof. A long plan, one-room depth, but extended with swept-down roof at left-hand end, the remaining doorway opening to a cross passage, blocked at the rear. The property may have originated as a cross-passage plan with a heated room at either end, and extra unheated room left of the entry. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 2 very wide-spaced windows, 3-light recessed hollow-chamfer stone mullion casements, with drip courses at ground floor. A blocked smaller opening central to the eaves. Off-centre, right, an early plank door in chamfered stone jambs and with a peaked stone lintel, carrying the date 1676 roughly carved on. There are plain gables, each with a brick stack. The rear windows are all small-pane wood casements; 2 and 3-light at the eaves, above a 2-light in the former door opening and a 3-light. The return wall, in the swept-down section, has a wide plank door under a vestigial timber hood, and further 3- and 2-light to the rear wall. INTERIOR: not inspected. (RCHME: Dorset, South-East: London: 1970-: 360). Listing NGR: SY6637282684

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