Listed Building record MDO13904 - Cottage, Iwerne Courtney or Shroton

Single storey cottage with attics. Walls of timber framing, clunch, rubble and brick below a thatched roof. Seventeenth century. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

'(6) Cottage (85801293), on the S. side of the lane, 100 yds S.E. of (4), is of one storey with attics. It dates from the 17th century and has walls of clunch, rubble, timber-framing and brick, and a thatched roof. At the centre of the N. front is a small three-sided two-storied bay window of squared clunch blocks with jambs and mullions of wood. The E. part of the N. wall is of rubble; the W. part has been rebuilt in brick. Internally, the ground floor has three rooms and a through-passage; the middle room and that to the W. have back-to-back fireplaces; the E. room has a fireplace in the gabled end wall, with a winding stair beside it.' [1]

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 129 (Monograph). SDO136.

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