Listed Building record MDO27374 - Trooper Cottage, Stourton Caundle

A house thought to have been built in the late seventeenth century. The building has rubble walls. Some original features survive in the interior.

'Except where otherwise described, the following are two-storied 18th-century houses with rubble walls and with roofs that are either thatched or covered with modern materials. … (16) Cottage (71491499), 250 yds. S. of the church, is single-storied with dormer-windowed attics and is perhaps of the late 17th century. A ground-floor room has a four-panel ceiling with intersecting chamfered beams, and an open fireplace with a chamfered bressummer.' {1}

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 268 (Monograph). SDO136.

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Aug 23 2024 3:08PM