Listed Building record MDO26015 - Halfpenny Thatch, Blandford Road, Shillingstone

A seventeenth-century cottage, with walls of coursed rubble and flint, and a thatched roof. Some later additions. Surviving features of the interior reported as including chamfered ceiling beam, wall-plates, and an 18th-century ventilator.

A two-storey house built of coursed rubble and flint, partly covered in render, and with a thatched roof. Thought to have been built in the 17th century, but with later alterations. The west front is symmetrical with three bays and a central doorway with sash windows on the ground floor and casement windows above. Interior features noted are exposed chamfered beam and wall-plates, and a store-room ventilator of small turned balusters, thought likely to be of 18th-century date. <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.

‘(9) COTTAGE (82501124), 250 yds. S. of the church, is two-storied and has walls of coursed rubble and flint, partly rendered, and a thatched roof; it is probably of 17th-century origin, with later alterations. The rendered W. front is symmetrical and of three bays, with a central doorway flanked by three-light sashed windows on the ground floor, and three casement windows above. Internally, one room has an exposed chamfered beam and wall-plates. A ventilator to a central store room, made with small turned balusters, is perhaps of the 18th century.’

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