Monument record MDO43629 - Estate Village, Milton Abbas

(Centred ST 806018) THE MODEL VILLAGE OF MILTON ABBAS stands in a wooded valley 1/2m SE of the original towns (ST 80 SW 64). It was built in c1780 and comprises two rows of cottages and other buildings, all set out on either side of a gently winding road that follows the bottom of the valley. The cottages are separated from the road by wide grass verges and until recently, alternated with large chestnut-trees. Externally most of the cottages are uniform. The standard cottages are two-storied and have cob walls, thatched roofs, rectangular plans, and front elevations comprising a central door-way with a transomed two-light casement window on each side, and three two-light windows on the first floor. Each cottage was originally meant to comprise two tenements, but several have now become single dwellings. <1>

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 197 (Monograph). SDO136.

<2> Historic England, Historic England Archive, 2K/07511 (Index). SDO14738.

2K/07511

<3> Historic England, Historic England Archive, BF110930 (Index). SDO14738.

England's Landscapes

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205808 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Mar 18 2022 10:40AM