Listed Building record MDO14707 - Gable Cottage, Chapel Lane, Yetminster

A detached house built in the sixteenth century with seventeenth-century and later alterations and additions. The roof is of jointed cruck construction and the plan of the house has a cross passage. The walls of the building are of rubble stone, the roof now covered in concrete tiles and it has stone and brick chimney stacks. Surviving features of the interior are reported to include open fireplaces and ceiling beams.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West) (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. … (24) Cottage, on the E. side of the road 265 yards N.E. of the church, retains two original windows with moulded oak frames and mullions and a doorway with a moulded frame and four-centred head. An internal doorway has a shouldered head.’

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Jul 16 2015 9:00AM