Listed Building record MDO16075 - The Skep, Dewlands Way, Verwood

A small detached cottage thought to have been built in the 18th century. The building has roughcast cob walls and a thatched roof with a brick chimney stack. In 1975 it was reported that the surviving original features included a large open fireplace, partly reconstructed, with a bread oven.

SU 08310870 and SU 08400862. Two late-18th or early 19th century cottages with cob walls and thatched roofs. The western cottage is single storied with attic and the other is of 2 stories. <1>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 73 (Monograph). SDO129.

‘Unless otherwise described, the following cottages are single-storeyed with attics and have cob walls, thatched roofs and class-S plans. They date from late in the 18th to about the middle of the 19th century. … Church Hill (25) Cottage (08310870), of two storeys.’

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 212992 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Feb 17 2023 12:04PM