Listed Building record MDO45062 - Coombe, Netherbury

Coombe Cottage, now three tenements, is two storeyed, rubble-built and thatched, dating from about 1600 with a later extension on the west. <2>

Inside are some old oak partitions and three original moulded beams carved with paterae. <3>

The building, now known as 'Coombe' <4.1> consists of four tenements, the most northerly of which is an addition of unknown date. All are stone-built with part thatch, part tile and part corrugated-iron roofs. There are no external features of dateable antiquity. <4>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 4961 9992) Coombe (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 175 (Monograph). SDO97.

<3> DOE (HHR), 1952, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: DOE (HHR) Beaminster RD Aug 1952, 27 (Scheduling record). SDO17925.

<4> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 18-MAY-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<4.1> Brown, Mr, Oral: Mr Brown (tenant), Coombe, Netherbury (Verbal communication). SDO19024.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 449871 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 14 2022 1:57PM