Listed Building record MDO27657 - Laburnum Cottage, Sodom Lane, Marnhull

A house thought to have been built in the seventeenth century, with a later extension to the south. The building has walls of coursed stone rubble with tiled roofs and brick chimney stacks. The house has stone-mullioned windows, and a striking feature is two round stone windows in the south gable.

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 159 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘Unless otherwise described the following monuments are two-storied and have walls of roughly coursed rubble, and tiled roofs; they are of the 18th century. … (56) House (78641912), in Sodom Lane, is probably of the early 18th century. It has stone windows of two and three square-headed lights with chamfered mullions and heads, and recessed surrounds. To the S. is a two-storied extension of one bay with stone windows of two lights and a flat roof; further S. is a later extension with a wooden window. The S. gable of the original building has two oval lights in ashlar surrounds.’

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Jul 17 2015 2:50PM