Listed Building record MDO26014 - Long Thatch, Blandford Road, Shillingstone

Sixteenth century house with alterations and additions of various later dates. The building has rubble walls, timber-framed and rendered, and a thatched roof with brick chimney stack.

A two-storey house with walls partly timber-framed and partly of rubble and cob, and with a thatched roof. Once three tenements but now modified into a single dwelling. The original building is in the centre of the present range, and was built in the late 16th century. The tenement on the south-west was built in the early 18th century, and the north-east tenement around 1860. Part of the original timber-frame construction can be seen in the north-west elevation, with two storeys of large squared oak members joined by pegs. Other surviving early features include a window, open fireplace with adjacent oven, and roof trusses. <1>

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

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