Listed Building record MDO16918 - Fig Tree, 43 High Street, Langton Matravers

A house, formerly two cottages but now a single dwelling. One was built in the eighteenth century, the other is thought to have been built around 1800. The building has walls of stone rubble, and a stone slate roof with stone chimney stacks. Surviving original features of the interior are reported to include a large open fireplace with bread oven, and exposed ceiling beams. There is a pump in front of the house.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1 (Monograph). SDO148.

‘These monuments, unless otherwise described below, are small houses and cottages, generally of two storeys with rubble walls and stone-slated roofs, and of the late 18th or early 19th century. Some have a central entrance with a window to each side, but several of those in the village street are built on a narrow frontage with one ground-floor front window only. Buildings numbered on the village maps but for which there is no individual entry below are covered by this general description.’

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