Listed Building: (105944)

SY 78 SW POXWELL - 9/55 Nos. 5 and 6 (formerly listed as Pair of Cottages 26.1.56 150 yds NE of Village Pump) GV II Pair of semi detached cottages, formerly used as a school. 1843. Dressed limestone walls. Thatch roof with gable ends, and gabled to front at centre, in projecting bay. Stone stacks with cornices at gable ends. 1½ storeys. 4 windows, outer ground floor windows of 3 lights, rest 2 lights. Wood casements with glazing- bars. Ashlar stone voussoirs to ground floor windows, eyebrow dormers to outer windows and two 2 light casements in the central gable. Doors: No. 5 right of centre, wood and upper half glazed, C20. No. 6 has a single storey wing at rear with rendered stack on gable end. 2 and 3 light casements. Doorway on side wall has 2 leaf glazed doors, C20. Projecting thatch porch canopy carried on wood posts. (R.C.H.M. Dorset II, p. 262 (6)). Listing NGR: SY7423884315

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