Listed Building record MDO9046 - Dale Cottage, Pond Head, Milton Abbas

Late eighteenth century detached house with colourwashed plastered cob walls on flint base and a hipped thatched roof. At left end, a late nineteenth century extension of flint, with slate roof.

DALE COTTAGE, is two-storied with cob walls and thatched roofs. The cottage is not shown on Woodward's map and it probably dates from the end of the 18th century. The W. front has three casement windows and two doorways on the ground floor, and four casement windows above. The kitchen, to the E., is a later addition; its date is probably indicated by a glass window pane on which is scratched 'The first light ever I made which was in 1831, Thos. Longman'.<2,3>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey map 1:10,560, 1968 (Map). SDO18658.

(ST 80340142) Dale Cottage (NAT)

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

‘(13) DALE COTTAGE, 500 yds. S.W. of the parish church, is two-storied with cob walls and thatched roofs. The cottage is not shown on Woodward's map and it probably dates from the end of the 18th century. The W. front has three casement windows and two doorways on the ground floor, and four casement windows above. The kitchen, to the E., is a later addition; its date is probably indicated by a glass window pane on which is scratched 'The first light ever I made which was in 1831, Thos. Longman'.’

<3> DOE (HHR), 1954, List of Buildings of Special Historic or Architectural Interest: Blandford Rural District, 28 (Scheduling record). SDO17701.

<4> Woodward, William, 1769-71, Estate Map, Milton Abbas (Cartographic materials). SDO14887.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205812 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 18 2022 11:41AM