Monument record MDO20382 - 1 Green Lane, Ashmore

One of a pair of single storey cottages with attics built in the seventeenth century. The walls are of banded greenstone ashlar and flint, and the roof is thatched. Possibly originated as a single house.

(ST 91351774) Two adjacent 17th century cottages, of one storey with attics, have walls of banded flint and ashlar, and thatched roofs. They perhaps originated as a single dwelling, as the South West elevation has an original stone doorway. <1-2>

<1> DOE (HHR), Oct 1951, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Shaftesbury RD, 2 (16/13) (Scheduling record). SDO17584.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 2 (7) Photo (Monograph). SDO99.

(7) COTTAGES (91351774), two adjacent, of one storey with attics, have walls of banded flint and ashlar, and thatched roofs; they are of the 17th century and perhaps originated as a single house. The S.W. elevation has an original stone doorway with a chamfered segmental head, and a stone window of three square-headed lights with hollow-chamfered jambs and heads. Inside, there are plank-and-muntin partitions and a chamfered beam.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209996 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jul 3 2023 3:38PM