Listed Building record MDO9103 - Bridge Cottage, Winterborne Zelston

Three houses thought to have been built around the middle of the eighteenth century, and now combined into one dwelling. The building has walls of cob and a thatched roof.

SY 89889765. Bridge Cottage is single-storeyed with attics and has cob walls and thatched roof, the building was originally a range of three cottages, but has now become a single dwelling. The range probably dates from the mid-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, 315 (Monograph). SDO136.

'(7) Bridge Cottage (89889765), 60 yds. S.W. of (1), is single-storied with attics and has cob walls and a thatched roof; the building was originally a range of three cottages but it has now become a single dwelling. The range probably dates from about the middle of the 18th century. Inside, several rooms retain stop-chamfered beams and one open fireplace has a bread oven beside it.'

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455815 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Aug 23 2024 4:20PM