Listed Building record MDO17118 - 34 West Street, Bere Regis

A two-storey house built in the middle of the eighteenth century, with a single-storey back wing which may originally have been a dairy. The building has walls of brick and a thatched roof with brick chimney stacks. Alterations made in the early nineteenth century include the addition of a bay window.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1, 19 (Monograph). SDO148.

‘The following houses unless otherwise described are of two storeys with cob walls and thatched roofs; the barns are of similar building materials. WEST STREET (see village plan) S. side: … (13) HOUSE, of two storeys and with a back wing of one storey, was built in Flemish bond about the middle of the 18th century. The E. ground floor-window on the N. side has a segmental head of alternate red and blue headers. The plan (see p. 18) is L-shaped, comprising two main rooms, which were probably a parlour to the W. and a kitchen. The absence of a doorway between the E. room and the back wing suggests that the latter served some farm purpose, perhaps as a dairy. In the second quarter of the 19th century a general renovation included the addition of an entrance lobby, a bay window and a back porch. Perhaps at this time the fireplace with an oven to one side was inserted in the back wing, though the wind remained perhaps a bakehouse and brewhouse rather than a kitchen. On the first floor the W. room has an original fireplace-surround with eared architrave and moulded shelf.’

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Aug 22 2024 4:29PM