Building record MDO45618 - Keeper's Cottage, Verwood

A house thought to have been built in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century, with many alterations, including the introduction of timber-framed partitions, 17th-century panelling and additional ceiling beams brought from elsewhere. The building has walls of cob and a tiled roof.

SU 08310700. A late-17th century or early 18th century single storey cottage with cob walls and a tiled roof. It has been much altered, and the timber-framed partitions, 17th century panelling and additional ceiling beams have been brought from elsewhere. (RCHME 1975)

Historic England, National Record of the Historic Environment, 212987 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1970 (Map). SWX1540.

(SU 08300699) Keeper's Cottage (NAT)

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 73 (Monograph). SDO129.

'(18) Cottage (08310700), of one storey with attics, has cob walls and a tiled roof. It was formerly of class J and is of late 17th or early 18th-century origin, but it has been much altered; timber-framed partitions, 17th-century panelling and additional ceiling beams have been brought from elsewhere. The fireplace at the N. end of the range has a stout cambered bressummer.'

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