Building record MDO45550 - Cottages, Spetisbury

A range of three cottages built in the late seventeenth and mid-eighteenth century. The lower part of the north-west cottage appears to be late seventeenth-century and the upper storey added around the middle of the eighteenth century. The middle cottage was built in the eighteenth century, while the third cottage is modern.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2, 245 (Monograph). SDO149.

‘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. … (12) Cottages (91690201), range of three, 60 yds. N.W. of the foregoing, are of several periods. The lower storey of the N.W. cottage is of cob and was built probably in the late 17th century; the upper storey is of the mid 18th century. The middle tenement was built in the 18th century and that to the S.E. is modern.’

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209681 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Feb 15 2023 5:09PM