Listed Building record MDO14895 - 3 Cheap Street, Sherborne

A two-storey house thought to have been built in the sixteenth century with later, mostly Georgian, additions including shop windows. The tiled roof was replaced in 1949, having suffered blast damage. The first floor of the building juts out and is supported on curved timbers.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 216 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(35) Becket's Chapel, house, immediately N. of (34), consists of a gabled cross-wing and part of the range running N. from it. It was built early in the 16th century. The W. end of the cross-wing has a projecting bay-window of three storeys, the front of which has been cut back on the two lower storeys; on the first floor it is flanked by two original single-light windows with four-centred heads and square labels; in the gable is a 17th-century two-light window; at the W. angles of the wing are broken ends probably of former buttresses, now removed. In the N. return of the cross-wing are two original square-headed windows. In the N. wing is a passage-way with an original doorway towards the street; it has moulded jambs and four-centred head. Inside the building, the ground-floor W. room has original moulded ceiling-beams and plates with bosses at the intersections carved with foliage and the arms of the abbey; in the N. wall are two recesses. On the first floor there is a 17th-century fireplace with moulded jambs and square head. The roof is of king-post type with curved wind-braces. The room over the passage-way has a timber partition with a four-centred head to the doorway; a curved wall on the N.W. may indicate a former staircase to the attics.’

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Aug 23 2024 1:02PM