Listed Building record MDO14626 - Cromwell Cottage, Village Street, Leigh

A house built in the mid to late sixteenth century, with early seventeenth-century and early-eighteenth century alterations. The building has walls of rubble stone, and a thatched roof with coped gables, and brick chimney stacks. A date stone over the doorway is inscribed 'IR1628'.

<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. … (6) Cottage, on the N. side of the road 270 yards E. of the church, retains its original stone-mullioned windows, the lower ones with labels; the doorway has a four-centred head and a label, above which is a stone with the initials and date I.R. 1628. In a window, W. of the doorway, is a glass quarry of c. 1500 with a figure of a huntsman. '

<2> Ordnance Survey, c 1962, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 map, epoch five (Map). SDO13903.

(ST 6204 0860) Cromwell Cottage (NAT)

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 887191 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 22 2024 3:54PM