Listed Building: FORMER METHODIST CHAPEL TO EAST OF MARTYRS' COTTAGES (106409)

The following building shall be added to the list TOLPUDDLE DORCHESTER ROAD SY 7994 (north side) 15/200 Former Methodist Chapel, to east of Martyrs' Cottages GV II* Former Methodist Chapel, now store. 1818 (Local Methodist Society Records); altered. Cob on plinth of brick with some flint; brick dressings; double Roman tile roof. One storey with inserted loft; gable-end to road, 1 x 2 bays. Road- side gable: former central doorway bricked-up and with later window; inserted doorway above with board door; apex of gable weatherboarded; projecting ends of purlins. Rear: bricked-up short pointed-arched window; gable apex weather- boarded. Left return: at left end, bricked-up doorway with segmental header- brick arch. Right return: inserted central stable door; on left a bricked-up segmental header-brick-arched window. Interior: inserted brick and cobble cow- house floor and loft; king-post roof trusses with through purlins supported at trusses by long braces rising from walls and having short ties to feet of principal rafters; roof underdrawn with lath and plaster (mostly collapsed). In state of disrepair at time of inspection. Five of the six Tolpuddle Martyrs were Methodists and it is presumed that they worshipped in this building. Listing NGR: SY7951794410

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