Listed Building record MDO13839 - Home Mead Cottage, 8 North Street, Fontmell Magna

A single-storey cottage with attics, built in the sixteenth century, but much altered since. The walls are partly of rubble and partly timber-framed with brick filling, and the roof is thatched. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

'(5) Cottage (86641720), No. 8, North Street, is of one storey with dormer-windowed attics and has walls partly of rubble and partly of timber-framework with herring-bone brick nogging, and a thatched roof ; it is of 16th-century origin, but has been considerably altered. The W. front is of two bays with a central doorway and has square-headed wooden casement windows of three lights, with leaded glazing, perhaps of the earthy 18th century. In the northern bay the brick nogging below eaves level is probably of the 17th century ; that above is modern, as also is the brickwork in the S. gable. Coursed brickwork immediately above the rubble plinth replaces a former wall-plate. Inside, an open fireplace has a timber surround with a moulded four-centred head with carved spandrels and a square surround ; one spandrel has foliate decoration, the other contains the letters IP.' [1]

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 25 (Monograph). SDO99.

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Aug 22 2024 8:06PM