Listed Building: MEADOW COTTAGE AND PRIORY COTTAGE (106218)

CHARMINSTER SY 6792 WEST HILL (South Side) 13/30 12 26.1.56 Nos. 11 and 12 (Priory Cottage and Meadow Cottage (formerly listed as Range of 3 Houses 130 yds S.E of School) GV II Formerly one farmhouse, now two attached cottages. Late C16 with C18, C19, and C20 alterations to fenestration, and walling. Knapped flint and banded stone walls and brickwork raising the eaves. Thatch roof with gable ends. C20. Brick stacks at east end gable and at ridge centre, and at right party wall with West Hill Cottage. 1½ storeys (Priory) and 2 storeys (Meadow). 3 windows and 2 windows. Fenestration, Priory: 3-light C19 wood casement; door, 4-light stone mullion window with iron casements and fixed lead lights. Label. Upper floor has 3 eyebrow dormers, two 2-light C20 metal casements; one 4-light wood casement. Meadow: (door) 4-light stone mullion window with iron casements and lead lights. Label over. First floor has 3-light and 4-light C20 wood casements. Front doors: Priory has a plank door with strap hinges, glass light. Meadow plank door left, with wood lintel over. Interior: much altered. Meadow has a large hall with a small early C19 dog-leg stair with Roman Doric newel. Right hand room, formerly larger before sub-division by hall, fireplace has brick jambs and segmental brick head. Mid chamfered ceiling beams. (RCHM Dorset III p70(12)) Listing NGR: SY6782892630

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