Listed Building: GARDEN COTTAGE, DELCOME MANOR (103497)

MILTON ABBAS DELCOMBE Garden Cottage, Delcome Manor ST 70 SE 2/81 14-7-85 GV II* Formerly listed under Delcombe Manor. Cottage, linked to Delcome Manor (q.v.) Built c1750 re-using medieval material from Milton Abbey. Walls mainly of flint and stone banding, part plastered, tiled roofs with coped gables and finials, central brick stack. At left end, attached to screen wall of Delcombe Manor, a single-storey range of stone and flint banding, with tiled hipped roof. Loop window in centre, flanked by slit windows rounded at top and bottom. Main block has mainly plastered walls, showing traces of stone and flint.- 2 storeys. 3 gables on front; centre gable with slight projection and diagonal buttresses. Ground floor of this has 2 C20 metal windows. One similar window on first floor. In left gable, ground floor has a 2-light square-headed stone mullioned window with arched lights. First floor has one casement with cast iron glazing. Right gable has diagonal buttress at right end. Ground floor has a 2-light square-headed stone mullioned window with arched lights. First floor has a C20 metal window. Right of the main block a wing wall of stone and flint banding - at right end of this some remains of a former gable. Later brick at rear. RCHM Monument 11. (Dorset. Vol.III) Listing NGR: ST7931404812

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