Listed Building: LITTLE BINDON (108723)

SY 8280, SY 8279, SY 8180, SY 8179, SY 8379 17/271 WEST LULWORTH 20.11.59 Little Bindon II* (Small chapel with attached cottage on west). Early C13 origin - property of Bindon Abbey. Original form and purpose not known, but foundations discovered in the area suggest it was part of a larger complex. Chapel re-roofed and part reconstructed in C15. Cottage altered - probably in C17. Substantial party wall between chapel and cottage suggests that the building was always divided in two units. Possibly chapel with attached priest's house. (c/f St Margaret, Pamphill, Dorset, and Black Chapel, North End by Ford End, Essex) Rubble stone walls, tiled roof with stone eaves courses and gables with parapets. Rendered brick stack. Simple rectangular plan, chapel and cottage in line. Later stone extension west of cottage - now ruinous. Cottage has one main room on ground floor, and two small service rooms adjoining chapel. No evidence of internal communication between chapel and cottage. Single-storey, with attic to cottage only. North (entrance) elevation has, in chapel, a C13 stone doorway, and two large "lancet" windows with brick surrounds and lead lights - probably C18. Three buttresses - probably post-medieval. C13 carved stone corbel at east end. Cottage has stone porch with tiled roof. Ground floor has two timber windows with glazing bars. Attic has two gabled dormers with horizontally sliding sashes with glazing bars. South elevation is similar, but without entrances or dormers. Cottage has two small windows under the eaves. East elevation of chapel has lancet window - this appear original. Internally, the chapel has a pointed plastered waggon roof with moulded ribs and wall plates - probably C15. Roof timbers concealed, but believed to be of similar date. Cottage has large open fireplace with cambered timber lintel, stone jambs and bread oven. One chamfered ceiling beam. Chapel apparently disused since the Dissolution and used for storage - not incorporated into cottage. RCHM Monument 2. Listing NGR: SY8305279861

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