Listed Building record MDO37610 - The Old Post Office, Dorchester Road, Winterbourne Abbas

A cottage built in the late sixteenth century, with 18th or early 19th-century additions and alterations. The building has walls of banded stone and flint, and a thatched roof.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2, 382 (Monograph). SDO149.

‘(3) COTTAGE (100 yds. W.N.W.), of one storey with gabled attics, walls of banded stone and flint and a thatched roof, was built in the late 16th century. The ground floor comprised two rooms: the hall to the W. has a ceiling sub-divided by chamfered beams and wall beams into four panels; the parlour lies to the E. and retains a three-light hollow-chamfered mullioned window on the N. side. A similar window remains in the gabled dormer of the chamber above. Alterations of the late 18th or early 19th century include the addition of a further cottage to the W. masking the original gable wall and outer doorway.’

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Mar 6 2025 3:19PM