Listed Building record MDO14709 - Greystones, Church Street, Yetminster

A house formed from an early eighteenth-century house and two former outbuildings combined into one by the addition around 1920 of a range between them. The earlier house, which may have incorporated elements of an early seventeenth-century building, has walls of rubble stone and a slate roof. The central block has rubble stone walls at ground level with tiles hung above. The former outbuildings have rubble stone walls and a Roman tiled roof. Original surviving features in the inside of the older part are reported to include open fireplaces.

<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. … (6) House, on the E. side of the road, 70 yards S. of the church, has walls of coursed rubble. It was built about the middle of the 18th century; the first floor of the S. cross wing has been rebuilt. There are flat copings and shaped kneelers to the N. and S. gables. It retains a number of original two-light windows; the original doorway is blocked.’

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Jul 16 2015 9:31AM