Listed Building record MDO16081 - Cottage, 55 Ringwood Road, Verwood

A detached cottage thought to have been built in the 18th century. The building has walls of cob covered in plaster and it has a thatched roof with a brick chimney stack. It was reported in 1975 that surviving original features included a large open fireplace and exposed ceiling beams in the interior. Summary from record MDO46092: A house built in the late eighteenth to mid-nineteenth century. The building has cob walls and a thatched roof.

Unless otherwise described, the following cottages are single-storeyed with attics and have cob walls, and thatched roofs. They date from late in the 18th to about the middle of the 19th century. (A) Cottage (09140902). <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. … New Town (27) Cottage (09140902).’

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 212993 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 29 2023 1:40PM