Listed Building record MDO10458 - Colescote, Piddletrenthide

Colescote (SY 70799898), a two-storeyed house with banded flint and rubble walls, mostly rendered, and thatched roof. The east front has a projecting porch with square-headed doorway, above which is a stone inscribed MFS 1692'. Except for the porch and the north bay of the east front the range probably dates from the late 16th or early 17th century; much of the front having been subsequently rebuilt in cob. <2>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, 1964 (Map). SDO10373.

(SY 70809897) Coles Cote (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 217 (Monograph). SDO136.

'(6) Colescote (70799898), 1,000 yds. S. of (1), is a two-storied house with walls of banded flint and rubble, and of cob, mostly rendered, and with a thatched roof. The E. front is of five bays with windows irregularly disposed. The S. bay is of banded rubble and flint; the three middle bays have rubble and flint near the ground but the upper parts are of cob; in the N. bay the lower part is wholly of flint and the upper part is cob. The central bay has a projecting two-storied porch with a square-headed doorway, above which is a stone inscribed ‘MFS 1692’. Except for the porch and the N. bay the range probably dates from the late 16th or early 17th century, much of the front having been subsequently rebuilt in cob. The porch was added in 1692; the N. bay is later. Inside, some rooms have roughly chamfered beams. (S. bay demolished, 1965).'

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454813 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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