Listed Building record MDO17744 - Summer Cottage, The Common, Moreton

A house thought to have been built in the eighteenth century, and consisting of a single storey with attics with later extensions at the rear. The building has walls of cob and a thatched roof with brick chimney stacks. The building was derelict in the 1960s (RCHME 1970) and has been renovated.

GREENBACK List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Scheduling record). SDO19706.

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2 (Monograph). SDO149.

'The following monuments unless otherwise described are of one storey and attics or two storeys, with walls of cob and roofs covered with thatch. They are of the late 18th or early 19th century, mostly built on a two-room plan with central entrance doorway and one end chimney, giving a kitchen-living room at one end and a pantry or scullery at the other. … (17–21) Cottages (795893, 793897, 792897, 792896), group of seven cottages including two pairs, were all built as part of a planned development, and all have been enlarged and altered.'

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Aug 6 2025 2:54PM