Listed Building record MDO27207 - Sunnyside Cottage, West Knighton

A house, now divided into two cottages. It was probably built in the seventeenth century, but has later alterations and additions. The initial LP MP and date 1719 are worked in vitrified brick in one wall. The building has walls of brick and render, and a thatched roof.

‘(5) House (180 yds. N.N.E.), of two storeys with brick-faced walls and thatched roof, is dated 1719, but is probably of 17th-century origin. The date, with initials LP MP, is worked in vitrified headers on the E. front and repeated on a stone in the S. chimney. The windows are fitted with early 19th-century cast-iron casements.’ [1]

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1, 138 (Monograph). SDO148.

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Sep 9 2011 11:37AM