Listed Building record MDO28488 - Speedwell Cottage, 30 Bournemouth Road, Spetisbury

A pair of cottages thought to have been built in the late 18th century, and now converted to a single dwelling. The building has walls covered with render, and the roof of one of the original cottages is thatched while the other is tiled with stone verges. In 1970 the building was described as having some surviving internal features, including exposed beams.

<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. . . . (20) Cottages (91150260), two adjoining, stand 400 yds. S.W. of the church. The S.W. cottage has a thatched roof while the other one is tiled. The first cottage has a nearly symmetrical S.E. front of two bays with a central doorway; the second I sof only one bay. Each cottage contains an exposed chamfered beam.’

Record last edited

Oct 11 2016 4:30PM