Listed Building record MDO17806 - Snipe Cottage, East Burton Road, Wool

A house thought to have been built in the eighteenth century. The building has cob walls covered in plaster and a thatched roof with brick chimney stacks. Surviving features of the interior are reported to include an open fireplace with features that may be the remains of a bread oven.

<1> 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.

‘Monuments (8–41) unless otherwise described are of two storeys with walls of rubble or cob and thatched roofs; they are of the late 18th or early 19th century. The cottages are generally built on a two-room plan with a central entrance. … Monuments (35—41), in E. Burton, were all built as cottages on a two-room plan with one end chimney and are mostly of the early 18th century. Some have the upper storey partly in the roof. … (41) House (832870) has been enlarged.’

<2> English Heritage, 2006, Listed buildings data disk (Digital archive). SDO12545.

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Nov 23 2020 1:47PM