Listed Building: (108564)

SY 8484 14/105 COOMBE KEYNES MAIN STREET 20.11.59 (North Side) No. 10. (Formerly listed as "No. 9 Myrtle Cottage", including attached barn on east) II House and barn. C16 origin, altered in early C17 and C18. Probably originally a long-house. Walls of brick and stone, raised in plastered cob, thatched roof, brick stacks. Two storeys at front, one storey and attics at rear, ie front wall has been raised. Long-house plan with byre at west end, cross-passage, hall and inner room - all originally open to roof. Hall floored over and stack inserted between hall and inner room in early C17. Byre converted to kitchen, probably in C18, and front wall raised to two storeys. Attached dairy and cheese room added west of kitchen in C19. Cross-gable at rear of hall over site of former spiral stair. Main elevation has ledged door in timber porch with tiled lean-to roof. Ground floor has three horizontally sliding sash windows with glazing bars and timber lintels. First floor has four similar windows. Traces of former cross-gable over hall - pre dating raising of the front wall. Evidence of cruck posts in wall. C19 dairy block under repair at time of survey. Single-storey rear lean-to has corrugated asbestos roof. Two cross-gables at rear, one thatched, one tiled. Internally, hall has deep chamfered intersecting ceiling beams, and large stone fireplace wih timber lintel. Kitchen has chamfered ceiling beams, and large brick fireplace with timber lintel. Roof of jointed cruck construction. Attached barn on east has south wall of stone, and a series of brick piers on the north, carrying the roof. Thatched roof. Single storey. Walls incorporate some moulded stone corbels, possibly from Bindon Abbey. RCHM Monument 5. See - Proceedings of DNHAS, Vol. XCVIII. Listing NGR: SY8427384248

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