Listed Building record MDO17741 - Beehive Cottage, The Common, Moreton

A single-storey cottage probably built in the 18th century. The building has rendered cob walls, a thatched roof, and a brick chimney stack. Posesses a simple two-room plan with end chimney that remains largely unaltered.

GREENBACK List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Scheduling record). SDO19706.

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2 (Monograph). SDO149.

'The following monuments unless otherwise described are of one storey and attics or two storeys, with walls of cob and roofs covered with thatch. They are of the late 18th or early 19th century, mostly built on a two-room plan with central entrance doorway and one end chimney, giving a kitchen-living room at one end and a pantry or scullery at the other. … (17–21) Cottages (795893, 793897, 792897, 792896), group of seven cottages including two pairs, were all built as part of a planned development, and all have been enlarged and altered.'

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Aug 6 2025 2:35PM