Building record MDO43384 - Ivy Cottage, Milton-on-Stour, Gillingham

A house built in the eighteenth century. The building has walls of rubble with a thatched roof. Surviving features of the interior are reported to include an open fireplace. A moulded plaster panel above the fireplace is thought to be 16th century in date and to have been re-used in this later building.

ST 79732818. Ivy Cottage, Milton-on-Stour, is of two storeys with rubble walls and thatched roofs, and dates the early 18th century. <1>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 34 (Monograph). SDO99.

‘(75) IVY COTTAGE (79732818), two-storeyed, with rubble walls and thatched roofs, dates from early in the 18th century. Inside, there is an open fireplace with a cambered bressummer and, above, a panel of moulded plasterwork with Tudor rose and pomegranate decoration; the panel dates probably from the late 16th century and is reset (cf. Bourton (21)).’

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 202334 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Aug 23 2024 12:05PM