Listed Building record MDO10186 - The Orchard, Caundle Street, Bishops Caundle

Sixteenth century house, with probably seventeenth century rear wing. Rubble walls with gabled, thatched roof to main range and half-hipped, tiled roof to rear wing.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 16 (Monograph). SDO146.

‘The following late 18th or early 19th-century farmhouses and cottages are built of rubble in two storeys, or in one storey with dormer-windowed attics. Most have thatched roofs. Unless noted otherwise the buildings are simple ranges with approximately symmetrical three-bay fronts, having central doorways, casement windows on either side and three corresponding first-floor windows. … (13) Cottages (70011308), two adjoining, have been converted to a single house and modernised.’

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Mar 24 2015 4:57PM