Listed Building record MDO26000 - Cox House, Blandford Road, Shillingstone

Sixteenth century house, with extensive later alterations. Timber-frame walls partially encased in Flemish bond brickwork, part rendered and whitewashed with a thatched roof.

A house thought to have been built in the late 16th century, with later extensions and alterations, particularly around the middle of the 18th century. Timber frame construction with wattle-and-daub. The interior is reported to be much altered, but surviving features include some chamfered beams and wall-plates. <1>

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 240-241 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(8) COTTAGE (82581103), 480 yds. S. of the church, is two-storied and has walls of timber-framing and brick, and a thatched roof. It was built late in the 16th century but it was extended to the S.E. and much altered about the middle of the 18th century. The original frame construction, with wattle-and-daub nogging, is exposed in the N.W. end wall. A doorway in the S.W. wall has a chamfered four-centred wooden head pegged to the jambs; it is no longer in situ. Inside, the building has been extensively altered and few original features are seen. A ground-floor room has two parallel chamfered beams and chamfered wall-plates.’

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Aug 23 2024 1:16PM