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. <2>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1970 (Map). SWX1540.

(SU 08300699) Keeper's Cottage (NAT)

<2> 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.'

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 212987 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Feb 17 2023 11:52AM