Listed Building record MDO17112 - 17 North Street, Bere Regis

A house built in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century, much altered in the middle of the nineteenth century by the creation of a shop at the south end. The building has walls covered in plaster, possibly over cob, and a thatched roof with brick chimney stack.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1, 19 (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: … (19) HOUSE was built in the late 17th or early 18th century when it must have had a range of three rooms, the middle one unheated. It was greatly altered towards the middle of the 19th century.’

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Aug 22 2024 4:29PM