Listed Building record MDO14621 - Lilliput Cottage, Leigh

A detached cottage thought to have been built in the middle of the 18th century, possibly a little earlier. The two-storey building has walls of stone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings, and a slate roof with stone eaves courses and gables, with brick chimney stacks.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 131 (Monograph). SDO97.

'The following monuments, unless otherwise described, are of the 17th century and of two storeys; the walls are of rubble and the roofs are thatched or covered with modern materials. Some of the buildings have exposed ceiling-beams and original fireplaces. … (8) House, 50 yards S. of the church, has walls of ashlar with quoins. It was built about 1700. The stone two-light windows have moulded architraves and an architrave of similar section frames the doorway.’

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May 29 2014 3:22PM