Building record MDO50254 - Cottage, Charminster

A house built in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century, but with extensive later renovations. Once a single dwelling, it is now divided into two.

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1 (Monograph). SDO146.

'The following monuments, unless otherwise described, are two-storied, with walls of banded rubble and flint, of rough ashlar and flint, or occasionally of plain rubble. Roofs are generally thatched but in some instances modern materials have been substituted. (8) Cottage (68059275), now two tenements, of one storey with attics, is of the late 17th or early 18th century but has been extensively renovated.'

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Feb 6 2026 11:42AM