Listed Building record MDO28482 - Castle Cottage, Bournemouth Road, Spetisbury

A cottage thought to have been built in the 17th century, but much altered. The building has walls of brick with render, and a thatched roof with brick chimney stacks. In 1970 the building was described as having some surviving internal features.

ST 91600208. Early 18th century cottage, much altered. <1>

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 245 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘Unless described otherwise, the following monuments are 18th-century dwellings of two storeys, or single storied with dormer-windowed attics, with walls of cob or of rendered brickwork, and with roofs that are thatched or of modern materials. . . . (13) Cottage (91600208), 100 yds. N.W. of the foregoing, is of the early 18th century but has been much altered. The N.E. ground-floor room has a stop-chamfered beam, and the fireplace in the S.W. room has a chamfered bressummer.’

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209680 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 11 2023 8:14PM