Listed Building record MDO10705 - Little Benville, Benville Lane, Corscombe

A detached house with the date 1812 on a gable wall. The building has walls of stone rubble and a slate roof with stone gable copings and stone chimney stacks.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 107 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘The following monuments, unless otherwise described, are of the 17th century and of two storeys; the walls are of rubble and the roofs are thatched or covered with modern materials. Some of the buildings have exposed ceiling-beams and original fireplaces. … (18) House, on S. side of lane 1 m. 520 yards S.E. of the church, has rubble walls with ashlar quoins; the S. wing is an 18th-century addition. It retains some original three-light stone-mullioned windows.’

Record last edited

Oct 23 2018 1:38PM