Listed Building record MDO21126 - 9 Abbey Street, Cerne Abbas

One of a row of former abbey tenements, now a private house. Built in the early sixteenth century, with eighteenth and nineteenth century alterations. The building has walls of knapped flint and banded stone plinth, and plastered jettied walls; three jetty-braces survive. Examination of some of the interior features suggests an even earlier date of construction.

"Barnwells" and No 7 (not No 3 - Authority 1) have Georgian refenestration and the half-timbering is obscured by plaster. "Abbey Cottage" and "The Pitchmarket" are outstanding for retaining most of their original features and the timberwork is exceptional. The row of cottages have stone flag roofs with renewed brick chimneys. The group is centred at ST 66570122. Cottage names verified by nameplates. (4)

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

‘(2) Cerne Abbey, remains … Much of the materials of the abbey has been reused in various houses in the village. Amongst these the most important are the 15th-century remains, perhaps of a reredos, with elaborate vaulted canopy work and pedestals; these stones are built into the wall W. of the New Inn, into the W. front of the house, Barnwells, in Abbey Street (Monument 5) and preserved in the same house. Other fragments of various dates are to be found in the yard of the New Inn (mainly 13th-century), on the first floor of a house in Long Street 60 yards S. of the church and in the modern entrance gateway to the churchyard. In the house Barnwells are some mediæval slip-tiles with conventional foliage and shields vair and fretty.’

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 80 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(5) RANGE of HOUSES (Plates 102, 104) on the W. side of Abbey Street is of two storeys; the walls are of stone and timber-framing and the roofs are covered with stone slates. The whole range was built c. 1500, the individual tenements being separated by stone partywalls with elaborately moulded corbelling at the level of the projecting upper storey; the two tenements between Nos. 1 and 2 have been pulled down, but the party-walls survive; other tenements have been considerably altered. …’

<3> Historic England, Historic England Archive, BF034114 1ABBEY STREET, CERNE ABBAS (Index). SDO14738.

<4> Phillips, A S, Various, Field Investigators Comments ASP, F1 ASP 15-JUL-77 (Unpublished document). SWX3817.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 199113 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 514410 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Barnwells, Nag's Head Inn

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Mar 22 2024 6:32PM