Listed Building record MDO13395 - Laurel Cottage, Tarrant Monkton

A two-storey house built in the late-seventeenth or early-eighteenth century. Made with walls of cob, rendered and whitewashed, with some brickwork. The roof is thatched with brick chimney stacks on the end.

ST 94450887. A pair of 18th century cottages, of one storey with attics, have cob walls and thatched roofs. <1>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 109 (Monograph). SDO99.

'Unless otherwise described the monuments in this group are of the 18th century and are two-storeyed, with cob walls and thatched roofs. … (10) Cottages (94450887), pair, of one storey with attics, have each a large stop-chamfered beam in the living room.'

<2> Historic England, National Record of the Historic Environment, 209436 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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