Listed Building: GULLIVERS, INCLUDING ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS AT REAR (109152)

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Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 301/9/135
Date assigned 20 November 1959
Date last amended

Description

SY 9777 WORTH MATRAVERS WORTH MATRAVERS VILLAGE 9/135 Gullivers, including attached outbuildings at rear 20-11-59 GV II Deatched cottage. Mid-late C17. Rubble stone walls, stone slate roof, stone end and centre stacks. At right angles to raod. One storey and attic. West (entrance) front has lean-to extension at right-end. Part-glazed door. Ground floor has 3 casement windows with glazing bars - evidence of former stone mullions. Attic has 2 pent-roofed ½ dormers with casements. Carved stone corbel over door. Main ground floor room has large open fireplace with timber lintol and bread oven. Some chamfered ceiling beams. Massive roof trusses, possibly originally jointed crucks. Attached outbuildings at rear, of similar construction; some roofs replaced in corrugated asbestos. Reputedly the home of Gulliver, the noted Dorset Smuggler. RCHM Monument 7 (Dorset Vol II). Listing NGR: SY9737177463

Map

Location

Grid reference SY 9737 7746 (point)
Civil Parish Worth Matravers; Dorset
District (historic) Purbeck
Unitary Authority Dorset

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Record last edited

Nov 7 2007 2:40AM