Listed Building record MDO41886 - The Long House, 19 Fifehead Hill, Fifehead Magdalen

A house which may have been built in the 17th century, though possibly a late medieval house in origin and much altered in the 17th century. The building has walls of rubble and a thatched roof with brick chimney stacks. Notable features of the interior are reported to include an open fireplace with chamfered timber bressumer, and a ceiling of intersecting chamfered beams. At one time divided into two tenements, though it is thought to have started as a single dwelling.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 21 (Monograph). SDO99.

‘(10) COTTAGE (77312109), of two storeys with rubble walls and a thatched roof, is of the 17th century. Although the building was at one time divided into two tenements it appears originally to have been a single dwelling with a class-F plan. The living room has an open fireplace with a chamfered, four-centred timber bressummer and chamfered stone jambs, and a ceiling of four panels formed by deeply chamfered intersecting beams and wall-plates.’

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Oct 24 2018 4:04PM