Listed Building record MDO17091 - 83 West Street, Bere Regis

A house built in the early eighteenth century, with two storeys and attics. The walls of the building are brick and it has a tiled roof with stone verges. A bay window was added around the middle of the nineteenth century.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1, 18 (Monograph). SDO148.

‘The following houses unless otherwise described are of two storeys with cob walls and thatched roofs; the barns are of similar building materials.

WEST STREET (see village plan) N. side: … (5) HOUSE, of two storeys and attics, built of brick with tiled roofs with stone verges, is of the early 18th century. The front originally had two ground-floor windows and a door-way on the W., a brick plinth, a plat-band marking the first floor and an eaves cornice of headers set on edge and alternately glazed. The two first-floor windows flank a rectangular sunk brick panel. The end gables have moulded brick copings and kneelers. The plan (below) comprises a side passage, a large front room with a small room opening from it E. of the stairs, and a N. kitchen wing; but there is nothing to show that the passage is an original feature, and the purpose of the small room is uncertain. About the middle of the 19th century a bay window was added in place of the ground-floor windows.’

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Aug 22 2024 4:28PM