Listed Building record MDO16082 - Chapel Farm Cottage, Ringwood Road, Three Legged Cross, Verwood

A detached cottage thought to have been built in the 18th century, and originally a small farmhouse. A farm building to the west of the house is now used as a garage. The cottage has walls of cob covered in plaster and a thatched roof with brick chimney stacks. In 1975 it was reported that the house was little altered, with surviving original features including a large open fireplace with a bread oven, and wooden ceiling beams. Summary from record MDO46112: A house built in the late eighteenth to mid-nineteenth century, with cob walls and a slate roof.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 74 (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. … West Verwood … (54) Cottage (08750538), of class T.’

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213003 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 29 2023 2:48PM