Building record MDO27872 - Cottages, Shapwick

Now demolished; formerly two adjacent cottages, both two storey with walls of banded rubble and flint in the lower storey and cob in the uppwer. The roofs were thatched. The north western dwelling was sixteenth century but was enlarged in the seventeenth century. The other dwelling was seventeenth century and the range was extended again to the south east in the eighteenth century. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

‘(8) Cottages (93770176), two adjacent, now demolished, were two-storeyed and had walls of banded rubble and flint in the lower storey and of cob in the upper storey; the roofs were thatched. The N.W. dwelling appears to have been of 16th-century origin; in the 17th century it was enlarged on the S.E. and the adjoining tenement was built. In the 18th century the range was again extended on the S.E., with walls of banded brick and flint. The doorway of the earlier tenement had a hollow-chamfered stone surround. Inside, some chamfered beams were exposed.’ [1]

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 60 (Monograph). SDO129.

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