Listed Building: CHESCOMBE COTTAGE (105538)

The following shall be added to the list:- ST 6601 CERNE ABBAS BACK LANE 11/206 No. 10 (Chescombe Cottage) II House. Circa early C17, extended in C18 and C19. Plastered cob. Thatched roof, gabled at right hand end and hipped over lower roofed extension at left end. Axial stack to left of centre and lateral stack at rear of right hand end,both with rebuilt brick shafts. Plan and development :- Long 4-room plan range with an axial stack with back-to -back fireplaces between the two centre rooms. The original house is the 2-room plan section on the right(west), the hall/kitchen on the left heated from a gable end(now axial) stack and with a small unheated room on the right. It was probably in the C18 that a 1-room plan extension was built with a stack backing onto the stack of the original range. In the C19 a further 1-room plan extension was built at the left(east) end and the whole range was converted into 2 2-room cottages; reunited into 1 house in C20. Exterior:- 2 storeys. Assymmetrical 4/5 window range. C20 2-light casements with horizontal glazing bars. C19 and C20 plank doors to left and right. At rear C20 2-light casements with glazing bars. Interior:- Centre right hand room has chamfered cross-beam with ogee stops, large fireplace with roughly chamfered lintel and C19 winder staircase in corner. Centre left hand room has boxed-in unchamfered cross-beam and brick fireplace with roughly chamfered lintel. The roof has been largely replaced in C20 but two trusses at right hand(west) end survive; the right hand with collar morticed and tenoned into straight principals, the left hand truss has collar lapped and pegged to face of straight principals and both have trenched purlins. Listing NGR: ST6652101057

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Jan 31 2019 11:21AM