Listed Building record MDO27608 - The Retreat, New Street, Marnhull

Pair of cottages, now public house, probably mid eighteenth century, in squared coursed rubble with tiled, gable-ended roof with end brick stack.

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 155 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘Unless otherwise stated the following monuments are of the 18th century and are two-storied, with walls of coursed rubble and tile-covered roofs. … (17) Range of Cottages (77781858), facing S., 450 yds. W. of the parish church, is of several dates. The Retreat Inn at the E. end of the range is probably of the mid 18th century; its S. front has two bays with a central doorway; the ground-floor window E. of the doorway has a 19th-century bow added while that to the W. is sashed. Inside, the first-floor rooms have chamfered beams and the partition between them is of plank-and-muntin construction. To the W. is a two-bay Cottage, probably of the early 19th century. Further W., and separated from the last-mentioned by a narrow gap, is a pair of 18th-century Cottages with moulded stone window surrounds and a string-course at the level of the first floor.’

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Aug 23 2024 11:55AM