Listed Building record MDO9038 - Green Walk, Milton Abbey, Milton Abbas

Eighteenth century detached house. Appears to be of two phases of building and may originally have been two cottages. It has plastered cob walls with a thatched roof, one plastered stack at left end, and one brick stack near right end. The only surviving house of the former town of Milton Abbas.

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 198 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(12) COTTAGE (79990229), 150 yds. E. of (1), appears on Woodward's estate map of 1769–71 and is the only dwelling of the old town (see (20)) to survive. It is of one storey with attics and has cob walls and a thatched roof; it appears to be of early 18th-century origin with 19th-century extensions in brick and thatch to S. and E. The original W. front is of three bays, with a central doorway symmetrically flanked by casement windows and with two attic dormer windows asymmetrically disposed. The 19th-century S. extension is of one bay. Inside, the ground-floor partitions of the original cottage have been removed to form a single room; in the N. wall is an original open fireplace with a stop-chamfered bressummer. To the E. of the fireplace is an oven.’

<2> Woodward, William, 1769-71, Estate Map, Milton Abbas (Cartographic materials). SDO14887.

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Oct 21 2016 4:42PM