Listed Building record MDO12720 - Edwardstowe, 52 Bimport, Shaftesbury

Two storey house with rubble walls and tiled roofs. The house Comprises an original three bedroom class F house of circa 1500, enlarged with an eighteenth century cottage at each end of the original range, all now combined as a single dwelling. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

ST 8583 2277. Edwardstowe. A two-storeyed house with rubble walls and tiled roofs comprises a three roomed building of ca. 1500 together with an C18th cottage at each end of the range, all combined as one dwelling. <1>

Bimport, No. 52, (Edwardstowe). Converted cottage range incorporating some remains possibly dating from the early C16th or before. These may have formed part of outlying Abbey buildings. Grade II. <2>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 71 (plan) (Monograph). SDO99.

(81) 'Edwardstowe', house, of two storeys with rubble walls and tiled roofs, comprises a three-roomed class-F house of c. 1500 together with two 18th-century cottages, one at each end of the original range, all combined as one dwelling. The N. front of the original range has modern square-headed casement windows in each storey; on the ground floor one of these windows replaces a former doorway; in the upper storey are two original stone windows of three square-headed lights and one of two lights; the other openings have modern casements. The S. front retains two original doorways with chamfered four-centred heads and continuous jambs; that on the E. is blocked. Near the middle of the S. front is a stone window of two square-headed lights, recently restored; adjacent is a projection of uncertain date containing the stairs. Inside, the original class-F plan has been modified by the removal of the partition between the two western ground-floor rooms, and of that on the E. of the through-passage; their position is indicated by beams with mortices for former muntins. The chimneybreast of the central fireplace has a chamfered wooden bressummer with a raised centre and chamfered stone jambs. The house contains some reset plank-and-muntin partitions and also an 18th-century shell-headed niche with shaped shelves. In the range of c. 1500 the original roof is partly preserved; it has cambered tie-beam trusses, two rows of stout purlins, and curved wind-braces. The 18th-century cottages have no notable features.

<2> DOE (HHR), 1973, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: North Dorset District, 19 (Scheduling record). SDO18623.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 913749 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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