Listed Building record MDO21171 - Lanterns, 27 Long Street, Cerne Abbas

A cottage thought to have been built in the seventeenth century, much altered externally in the twentieth century. The building has rendered walls with a clay tile roof and stone slab eaves. Surviving features of the interior are reported to include a large open fireplace and moulded ceiling beams.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 81 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘The following monuments, unless otherwise described, are of the 17th century and of two storeys; the walls are of rubble and the roofs are covered with thatch or modern materials. Some of the buildings have exposed ceiling-beams and original fireplaces. … (9) Cottage, 15 yards S. of the church, was built perhaps early in the 18th century, but has been much altered.’

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Mar 18 2016 10:29AM