Listed Building record MDO14601 - Spring Cottage, Neal's Lane, Chetnole

Late fifteenth century cottage, now attached and forming annexe to a nineteenth-century cottage. Possibly originally open-hall form and timber-framed. The building now has walls of rubble stone and a thatched roof, with coped gable at left end, a brick chimney stack at left end, and stone stack right of door.

Spring Cottage. Now attacehed to, and forming annexe to, a C19th cottage. Late C15th, of open-hall form, altered in C16th and C17th. Grade II*. <2,3>

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1979 (Map). SWX1197.

Spring Cottage (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 93 (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. … (12) Cottage, 100 yards E. of (11), was built in the 16th century and has a 17th-century extension on the W. The middle room has an original ceiling with moulded beams forming eight panels; on the E. side of the room is an original panelled partition with chamfered muntins and head and a doorway with a shouldered head; the fireplace has a moulded bressummer. The W. room has a later panelled partition, in which is a doorway with a four-centred head. On the first floor is another panelled partition.'

<3> DOE (HRR), 17 Oct 1986, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: District of West Dorset amendment 1986 (Scheduling record). SWX2454.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 887035 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Nov 19 2021 7:32PM