Listed Building record MDO17105 - Longhouse, North Street, Bere Regis

A house built in the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century, enlarged in the eighteenth century and again in the nineteenth century with the creation of a cottage at the southern end. The building has walls of cob on a brick base and a thatched roof with brick chimney stacks.

Department of the Environment, 1984, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Bere Regis, Bloxworth, East Stoke, Lytchett Matravers, and Morden, 4 (Scheduling record). SDO20702.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1, 20 (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. NORTH STREET (see village plan) e. side: … (24) HOUSE, of one storey and attics, is of similar plan and date to (23). A third room was added to the N. in the early 18th century and a Cottage at the S. end in the early 19th century.’

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