Listed Building record MDO8951 - Bagber Cottages, 22 Milborne Road, Milton Abbas

Cottage, late eighteenth and nineteenth century. It has walls of stone and flint with some brick banding a tiled roof, and a central brick stack.

(SY 80809925) Bagber Cottages of banded flint and ashlar are perhaps of early 17th century origin but have been much altered and modernised. Windows and doorways are of the 19th century and the upper parts of the walls have been renewed in brickwork. About 100 yards to the north east are a pair of cob and thatch cottages that are probably of the late 18th century. <1>

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 198 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(18) BAGBER COTTAGES (80809925), on the S. boundary of the parish, have walls of banded flint and ashlar, and tiled roofs. They are perhaps of early 17th-century origin but they have been much altered and modernised. Windows and doorways are of the 19th century and the upper parts of the walls have been renewed in brickwork. About 100 yds. to the N.E. is a pair of cob and thatch Cottages that are probably of the late 18th century.’

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456067 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 23 2023 2:19PM