Listed Building: OLD SHEPHERD'S COTTAGE (435915)

SY 68 NE WINTERBORNE ST MARTIN MAIN ROAD (south side) 5/133 Old Shepherd's Cottage - II Formerly two cottages, now one. Later C17 extended south with hip, with extensive refenestration and modernisation. Rubble stone walls and dressed stone walls, colourwashed. Thatch roof, hipped at south end and gabled at north end. Rebuilt brick stacks on south hip apex and on north gable end. 1½ storeys. 4 windows, irregular fenestration, mainly 2 light C20 wood casements with glazing bars, wood cills. Eyebrow dormers, are 2 light wood casements with glazing bars. Front door, C20 plank with one glazed light. C20 porch. Rear elevation irregular fenestration of 5 windows, same types, and 2 eyebrow dormers over. Interior: open fireplaces in north end room, C18 brick jambs with bread oven in right jamb, and taking out hole. Segmental chamfered wood lintel. Open fireplace in south end, brick jambs rendered and wood lintel chamfered. Bread oven in right jamb. Ceiling beams straight chamfered. (R.C.H.M. Dorset II, p.393(9).) Listing NGR: SY6522288795

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