Building record MDO27889 - Cottage, High Street, Shapwick

Two adjacent former cottages, each of one storey with attics. That to the north east was c1600, that to the south west was added later in the seventeenth century. Both had walls partly of timber frame and partly of cob over stone plinths, and both were roofed with thatch. Demolished. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

‘(24) Cottages (94140191), two adjacent, now demolished, were of one storey with attics and had walls partly of cob and partly timber-framed on stone plinths; they were roofed with thatch. The N.E. cottage was of c. 1600; that on the S.W. was added later in the 17th century. Stop-chamfered beams were exposed in the ground-floor room of the earlier cottage.’ [1]

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 60 (Monograph). SDO129.

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