Listed Building record MDO13562 - Minster House, Bridge Street, Sturminster Newton

Seventeenth century cottage, refaced in nineteenth century. Whitewashed brick to front, rubble walls to rear. Thatched roof, hipped to the right and gable ended to the left.

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 282 (Monograph). SDO136.

'COTTAGE, single-storied with attics, has walls that are partly of brick and partly of rubble, and a thatched roof. It was built in the 17th century, perhaps as a pair of cottages, but was provided with a new W. front in the 19th century. The W. front is of brick, with wooden casement windows in four bays; between the two northern windows is a blocked doorway. The gabled N. and S. end walls are of rubble. At the centre of the E. elevation is a projecting two-storied wing of squared rubble, with three-light casement windows in each storey. Inside, the W. range contains two main rooms, each of which is spanned by a chamfered beam with moulded stops; the fireplaces and common chimneystack are at the centre of the range, between the two rooms. The partition which forms a corridor along the E. side of these rooms is partly composed of a 17th-century plank-and-muntin work, with moulded muntins.'

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