Listed Building record MDO17807 - Colts Close, East Burton Road, Wool

A detached house thought to have been built in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. The building has walls of cob covered in plaster and a thatched roof, with a later addition to the rear.

<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. … (40) House (832871) has been enlarged and modernised.’

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

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Nov 20 2020 4:16PM