Listed Building record MDO28484 - Crawford Cottage, Bournemouth Road, Spetisbury

One of a pair of attached cottages built in the late 18th century. The building has walls covered with render, and a thatched roof with brick chimney stacks at the gable ends.

ST 91730198. Pair of 18th century cottages with a symmetrical south east front of four bays and doorways set at the centre of each tenement. <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. . . . (11) Cottages (91730198), pair, 200 yds. N.W. of the foregoing, have a symmetrical S.E. front of four bays, with the two doorways set at the centre of each tenement; each has a single chimneystack on its gabled end wall.’

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209684 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Jan 11 2023 8:18PM