Listed Building record MDO8893 - Abbots Barton, The Knap, Hilton

Seventeenth century house. Walls, left section of flint and brick banding, centre section of brick, right section of rubble stone. Artificial stone slate roof. One brick stack at left end and one near centre.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1 (Monograph). SDO146.

‘Unless otherwise described the following monuments are two-storied dwellings of the 18th century. In early examples the walls are of cob or, occasionally, rubble; later examples are of rubble and flint with brick bonding courses; the roofs are generally thatched. Many cottages have exposed ceiling-beams. … 11) Cottages (78050310), two adjacent; that to the E. is of squared rubble and dates from the 17th century; it has been extended to the W. in brick and flint at two periods.’

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