Listed Building record MDO37256 - Clover Cottage, Pleck, Hazelbury Bryan

A house thought to have been built in the seventeenth century, but with extensive alterations. It appears to have started as a single house and to have been converted into three dwellings in the nineteenth century; there is a date stone with the inscription ‘WJM 1821’. It is now once more a single house. The building has rubble stone walls which were re-fronted with brick in the nineteenth century, and a thatched roof. Surviving features of the interior are reported to include large fireplaces, one with a wooden staircase beside it, and a chamfered beam.

The surname associated with the inscription 'WJM1821' is Mitchell. <2>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 108 (Monograph). SDO146.

‘Unless otherwise described, the following monuments are of the 18th century and are two-storied, or single-storied with dormer-windowed attics; they have rubble walls, brick chimneys, thatched roofs and casement windows. … (17) House (74220837), perhaps originally of the late 17th century, was refronted with brick and divided into three tenements in the 19th century (date-stone 'WJM 1821'); it is now reconverted to a single house. Inside, the N. end room has a large fireplace, now blocked, with a wooden staircase beside it, and each of the other ground-floor rooms has a similar fireplace. One room has a chamfered beam.’

<2> Eyres, G J, and Hobson, C, 2020, Dorset HER Hazelbury Bryan. Comments and Corrections. (Unpublished document). SDO16488.

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